The Northern Hills Bird Club September meeting will be a picnic meeting at Woodle Park in Sturgis at 6 PM on Thursday September 6. Attendees should bring...
Kathy and Bob DeLara from Scotts Bluff, NE and I observed 4-5 Lewis's Woodpeckers and a lone Clark's Nutcracker near the Elk Mt. Fire Tower (off of the Dewey...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Sep 2, 2007 1:49 am
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Hello SD and SF birders, I have finally written up the trip report on Washington State from last month. This trip was planned to help get some people some ...
I had my 3rd Rufous Hummingbird of the year in my yard today. I also had a Ruby-throat with an all white cap. Sharing is half the fun of birding. Ricky D....
I saw a Carolina Wren at Farmm Island State Park tonight. Itwas along the Nature Trail in the brush at the entrance to the viewing blind. My Rufous Hummingbird...
There was a young N. Mockingbird in my yard this morning (NE Custer County). It came quite close to me, but came nowhere near after I'd fetched my camera. This...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Sep 3, 2007 4:13 pm
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I ran into Dave Swanson birding at Union Grove State Park and enjoyed looking for warblers with him. Listed below are birds observed at Union Grove in South...
For Harding County listers: We saw a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher yesterday in the North Cave Hills. It was in the buffalo berry thickets in Fuller Canyon, about 1/4...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Sep 3, 2007 11:49 pm
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Today I received a photograph of a Swallow-tailed Kite taken in Mitchell on Sunday morning. Not very hopeful that it would still be presnet I drove down anyway...
Palmer, Jeff
Jeff.Palmer@...
Sep 4, 2007 1:24 am
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I took my 4-year old son on a true birding trip for the first time today, or at least the first one devoted specifically to birding. We went to the Big Sioux...
I have posted a link to a photo of the Swallow-tailed Kite onto the main SDOU web page for anyone who might be interested! Jeffrey S. Palmer College of Arts &...
Palmer, Jeff
Jeff.Palmer@...
Sep 4, 2007 2:01 pm
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Yesterday I went to see if I could find Mark's Yellow Throated Vireo's he saw at Hartford Beach. Here are a few not so great pictures. ...
Hi, I went to Spirit Lake IA this morning to find the frigatebird reported yesterday. Also the Little Gull at Welch Lake and the many shorebirds, incl. Red...
Sunday, 02-Sept-07, Kingsbury County, SD Common Tern, 1 breeding adult Am. Avocet 17 Black-bellied Plover 1 hundreds of FrGu and RBGu and a smattering of...
I've been a member of SDOU for many years, but since I live in Indiana, I don't often post. I was in SD over Labor Day weekend for the Strandburg School...
Lowell Anderson
prlowell@...
Sep 5, 2007 2:08 am
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A trip around the Aberdeen wetlands in northern SD Saturday gave up 50+ species. Nothing unusual except a few American Avocets in winter plumage, a nice Common...
mick
zerrm@...
Sep 5, 2007 3:27 am
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IN my previous longer post, I incorrectly called the "Belding's" a Vesper Sparrow. I thought after I mailed it, and in just recalling the list that something...
Lowell Anderson
prlowell@...
Sep 5, 2007 6:21 pm
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The announcement is up on the SDOU website: http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/palmerj/SDOU/meetings.html Doug Backlund S. D. Dept. of Game Fish and Parks S.D....
I enjoyed a beautiful night Tuesday kayaking down the Missouri River with Mary Gertsma from NE boat launch below Gavins Point Dam to Riverside Park boat launch...
Since this never came back to me in e-mail, I'm sending it again. The "correction" did make it to me, making me think this one was lost in cyberspace. Lowell...
Lowell Anderson
prlowell@...
Sep 6, 2007 6:24 pm
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We banded a Plumbeous Vireo at Farm Island this morning. That is species #94 at our banding stations. Yesterday we banded a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. I put...
Species #95 was banded today, a Carolina Wren. http://www.sdgfp.info/Wildlife/Diversity/birdbanding/images/carolina_wre n.htm The Plumbeous Vireo was not seen...
FYI - !!!!!!!! http://www.birdersworld.com/brd/default.aspx?c=a&id=972 K. C. Jensen, Ph.D. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences SPB 138D, Box 2140B ...
Today, after school, the Sioux Falls feeders were busy. The male Oriole was eating on the grape jelly, three Hairys' were at the peanuts, two female and one...
mick
zerrm@...
Sep 8, 2007 3:19 am
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I sent this yesterday and still hasn't come through. Trying again... Doug Backlund Pierre, S.D. ... From: Doug Backlund [mailto:dougback@...] Sent:...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Sep 9, 2007 12:10 pm
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A scouting trip for next week's scheduled SFBC outing found very few mud flats around Sioux Falls for shorebirds. Doug will post species list later. A few...
mick
zerrm@...
Sep 9, 2007 2:58 pm
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Today we saw a female Scarlet Tanager on Farm Island. An interesting observation was made of a young Sora, perched on a branch, several feet over the water....
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Sep 9, 2007 2:59 pm
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Hi Birders, As Mick mentioned earlier today, a few of us went out in the much cooler temperatures and intermittent light rain to bird west and south of Sioux...
Folks -- I've turned off sd-birds Spam Filtering. A number of legitimate posts have been caught in the filter recently and it sometimes takes me a while to ...
