The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will hold its January meeting 7:00 PM Thursday, January 4, 2007 at the Meade County Extension Service Office, 1029 Fifth...
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danielstreifel
Jan 1, 2007 7:35 pm
I found this guy at Richmond SRA today. I also saw my first Lapland Longspur on the way back to town. ...
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cbstafford
turkeyfeathrs
Jan 1, 2007 11:13 pm
Feederwatching Sunday, had 5 male Northern bobwhite foraging under the feeders with the juncos. One visited last winter for several weeks and a lone female was...
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Scott Weins
sweins@...
Jan 2, 2007 1:06 am
Yesterday I found a Winter Wren in Spearfish Canyon, just a little ways above Bridal Veil Falls. I went back today to try for better photos and located the...
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Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Jan 2, 2007 1:27 am
I was about 15 miles south of Fort Pierre when I spotted an adult gyr on a fence post. I stopped to try for some photos, but it took off. Then I saw that it...
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tlsohl
huskertsd
Jan 2, 2007 5:42 am
Always nice to start a new year by getting a new lifer. I went down to Gavin's Point dam this morning, and was having a ball shooting the eagles. I was...
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Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:30 am
Today on a walk on the Sundance Nature path we saw 25 Mallards. 4 Eurasian C. Doves, 21 Red-wing Bl. Birds, 1 Downy woodpecker, 2 House Finches, 2 House...
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mick
zerrm@...
Jan 5, 2007 12:25 am
A New Year's trip to Aberdeen failed to turn up the Richmond SRA Pine Grosbeak, but the following were seen: Three Red-tailed Hawks, Two Northern Harriers, 3...
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m. melius
mmelius@...
Jan 5, 2007 3:38 am
I've seen Short-eared Owls on two occasions recently in NE Custer Co. I can actually give an address to the location, since we have new 911 designations that...
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Jason Tinant
charlesjason...
Jan 5, 2007 6:46 am
Hi Caroline, Where are your feeders exactly? I saw some northern bobwhites a month ago onthe west side of Skyline Drive and my grandmother has been seeing one...
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Ricky D Olson
rickyd76
Jan 5, 2007 2:05 pm
The Mew Gull is still here. Ring-billed & Herring Gulls are still here in fair numbers. The only new birds seen this week were 5 Rusty Blackbirds & a Western...
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m. melius
mmelius@...
Jan 5, 2007 6:43 pm
I've posted messages before in this forum about looking for migrating birds of prey from Skyline Drive in Rapid City. I wasn't able to get out much this past...
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Bill Huser
huser_bill
Jan 5, 2007 11:16 pm
... From: Bill Huser [mailto:beehive@...] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:44 PM To: NEBirds; SD Birds Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull --- GONE?? In a...
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mick
zerrm@...
Jan 6, 2007 1:26 am
Every so often one of our local newspapers discovers the Christmas Bird Count. Here is a connection to one about the CBC at Sand Lake NWR....
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Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 6, 2007 2:10 am
Today I stopped at Paul Miller"s Res. Off I90 at the border of S. D. and Wy. The large flock of Bohemian Waxwings were flying across the Hwy. to the Res. and...
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Swanson, David
David.Swanson@...
Jan 6, 2007 4:51 pm
I visited the Gavin's Point area yesterday afternoon. I didn't find the Lesser Black-backed Gull, but did see Bill Huser's breeding-plumaged Franklin's Gull....
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cbstafford
turkeyfeathrs
Jan 6, 2007 8:08 pm
Hey, Good for you, Dan Dan's sharp-tailed grouse photo featured on p. 70. Very nice comments by contest judge, I thought. Caroline Stafford RC ...
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Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 6, 2007 10:01 pm
Today, January 6, I observed the Ross's Goose and Barrow's Goldeneye at Canyon Lake. Unless these species leave or new species appear, I won't report again...
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mick
zerrm@...
Jan 7, 2007 12:19 am
On a pretty nice day for January (temp 40) I went over to the Great Bear Ski area to see if the Great Blue Heron was still around. Did not find him, but found...
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Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 7, 2007 1:53 am
I forgot to mention that there were Cackling Geese at the lake earlier this week. I didn't look for them today, January 6. Jocelyn Baker, Rapid City ... ...
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Ricky D Olson
rickyd76
Jan 7, 2007 2:17 am
Todd Jensen & I saw a Hoary Redpoll & Common Redpoll on a power line along a sunflower field in Sully County. We also saw a Gyrfalcon in Sully County. A Snowy...
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mick
zerrm@...
Jan 7, 2007 11:13 pm
Just in case you did not read this article in Dec. Discover magazine, it is worth a birder's time>...
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Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 8, 2007 5:04 am
On the way to Deadwood we stopped at Paul Miller's Res. off I90 looking for the Barrows Goldeneye. Did not find it but, there were 2 Ringneck Ducks which when...
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Vic/Donna Fondy
victorlfondy
Jan 8, 2007 7:47 pm
The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a field trip Saturday January 13, 2007. The trip will be a progressive feeder watch starting in Whitewood,...
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Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 8, 2007 11:09 pm
Mike Michael saw a Snowy Owl on Antelope Creek Road east of Rapid City at 2:30 this afternoon (January 8). It was observed near the Yackley Ranch. Antelope...
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Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 9, 2007 2:02 am
I was finally able to pick out the Black Rosy Finches at my feeders today. They are still here but with so many Finches just have to be lucky to look at the...
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douglas chapman
foodrev@...
Jan 9, 2007 2:05 am
I have an Eastern Towhee active in my backyard. It is hanging with 8 cardinals--5 males at once on my deck. Many junco, chickadee and a Brown Creeper. I do not...
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dan&erika
tallmand
Jan 9, 2007 2:37 am
Are you South Dakotans aware that there is a Green-tailed Towhee in nearby Mountain Lake in Cottonwood Co., Minnesota? Here is a poor photo of the bird: ...
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Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 9, 2007 8:28 pm
This morning (January 9) at 8:30, I observed the Snowy Owl that was seen yesterday at 2:30 p.m. by Mike Michael of Rapid City. Here are directions to reach...
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m. melius
mmelius@...
Jan 9, 2007 9:16 pm
I found a couple Harris' Sparrows in Rapid City today. They were along Rapid Creek, upstream from Canyon Lake. They were in a thicket with juncos and finches,...
