A 1st year Lesser Black-backed Gull showed up on Hipple lake at Farm Island, Sunday. Sharing is half the fun of birding. Ricky D. Olson Fort Pierre SD ...
Ricky D Olson
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Mar 1, 2005 6:10 pm
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Please reply to Nancy, not to me. dan WATERBIRD TECHNICIANS (1-3) needed to conduct inventory of colonial and semi-colonial waterbirds in South Dakota. One...
March 1st celebration of first bluebird of the year at our house. Male mountain bluebird. Spotted by experienced birder (my daughter, age 12) on Sheridan Lake...
We returned to empty feeders at our Whitewood, SD home after a five week trip to Alaska. Birds returned rapidly and we have the usual feeder species of BC...
Victor L. Fondy
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Mar 2, 2005 3:14 am
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We stopped at Picnic Springs campground in North Cave Hills on Sunday morning after a 2 day trip through North Dakota's sage grouse leks. There was a beautiful...
We banded another saw-whet tonight, this one was in a shelterbelt off Western Road near Oahe Dam, Hughes County. The location is near where we banded two...
Doug Backlund
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Mar 2, 2005 4:18 am
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FYI ... From: sharonks@... <sharonks@...> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:55:52 -0600 Subject: [mnbird] Dead Redpoll and Siskin Answer To:...
This morning (March 2) I checked the Greater Sage-Grouse lek located NW of Belle Fourche and found 4 males strutting. They were closer to the highway than...
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 2, 2005 11:36 pm
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Tonight Charlie and I banded two more saw-whets at Billy Goat. We also recaptured one saw-whet that we banded at Billy Goat on Nov. 8, 2004. The recaptured owl...
Doug Backlund
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Mar 3, 2005 4:01 am
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I will be out of the office starting 03/03/2005 and will not return until 03/10/2005. I will respond to your message when I return....
Please do not forget to submit your Winter Season Observations to the online database. Thanks! http://homepages.dsu.edu/palmerj/sdousbor/ Jeffrey S. Palmer ...
Palmer, Jeff
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Mar 3, 2005 9:13 pm
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Hi All, Good day of birding Turner, McCook and Minnehaha Counties. Both late winter and early spring birds seen; some in good numbers. 2 flocks of Horned...
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Mar 3, 2005 10:20 pm
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Hi again all, I must mention that this day of birding also included 4 places where there were dogs and masters dashing all over unleashed--from Makoce Washta...
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Mar 3, 2005 11:27 pm
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Today, March 3, while hiking the Harney Peak trail I observed an American Northern 3-toed Woodpecker about 1/3 of the way up trail #9. It was feasting on a...
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 3, 2005 11:37 pm
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Isn't it illegal to have dogs off leash at this time of year in WPAs? Rosemary Draeger...
B&R Draeger
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Mar 4, 2005 3:48 am
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I last saw the redpolls and siskins February 25 here in Watertown. Looks like they have left me for the winter. The pert little guys were fun while they...
Erland & Sandy Carlson
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Mar 4, 2005 5:10 pm
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Birders: Cary Feldman and I went out today to see if more migrants were around. We went South into Turner County, hoping that the few degrees further south ...
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Mar 5, 2005 4:17 am
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For those who went on an owling/boreal adventure to the frozen North this winter, this will not be surprising. Thought you'd like to know. From Jan Green and...
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Mar 5, 2005 1:28 pm
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The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a field trip out of Spearfish on Saturday, March 12, to look for overwintering Virginia Rails and other...
Hi All, Birds seen today not seen yesterday: Sharp-shinned Hawk at Outdoor Campus, (it was being pursued by crows--which were also harassing a Red-tailed. One...
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Mar 5, 2005 10:32 pm
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There was a Snowy owl on Cty Rd. 113 by Keyhole Res. From Hwy. 14 out of Moorcroft take 113 east toward Pinehaven 2 miles or from the east on 113 at ...
Eugene Adams
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Mar 5, 2005 11:59 pm
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Rosemary Draeger, Patricia Ball, and I had a wonderful trip through Butte county today. We started off with 4 displaying sage grouse on their lek--it was...
anna k. ball
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Mar 6, 2005 1:06 am
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Oh I forgot-- the Snowy owl was just before where the road takes that sharp jog to the east and then back again. And there were 18 rough-legged hawks. And...
anna k. ball
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Mar 6, 2005 1:27 am
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Today I found Saw-whets number 50 and 51 for the winter (116 total sightings). Also a couple of Snowy Owls still hanging out about a mile north of the Cow...
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Mar 6, 2005 2:03 am
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The serendipity of birding continues to amaze me. Four major hikes into the spruce forest this week and no three-toed woodpeckers. The two previous weeks...
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Mar 6, 2005 3:31 am
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SFBC members who went out Sunday saw over 100,000 snows, blues, canadas, and white fronts. See the photo on the web site www.leifericson.org/sfbc. Also seen...
mick
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Mar 6, 2005 11:38 pm
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Hello All... Over the last week I have noticed changes with the warm weather, in the 60's. Canyon Wrens, WW Juncos, and American Goldfinches are singing up a...
On Thurs. March third I took a birding jaunt north and east of Woonsocket into Beadle and Kingsbury counties. The geese were on the move bigtime and I was...
bob rogers
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Mar 7, 2005 12:58 am
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What a difference between Sunday and Saturday's bird jaunts. I headed down to Angustora Reservoir fully expecting it to be bank to bank waterfowl as were Orman...
anna k. ball
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Mar 7, 2005 2:39 pm
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This last week I've seen my first Eurasian Collared-Doves and (a single) Mourning Dove of the year in SD. After walking the same route at least 2x/week since...