Waterfowl Estimates for Sand Lake NWR - 10/1/2008 Canada Geese - 3000 Snow Geese - 0 Ducks - 21,000 Swans - 10 Most of the ducks on the refuge are using Mud...
Refuge personnel saw a caracara just east of the town of Miranda, in Faulk County this afternoon. It was in a pasture, just south of the road east of Miranda....
At the Sioux Falls feeders the last two days. Yellow Rump and Nashville Warblers. The first migrant sparrow showed up today. A Lincoln's Sparrow. Saturday,...
mick
zerrm@...
Oct 2, 2008 1:20 am
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I took Caity Reiland-Smith to see the Le Conte's Sparrows at Atkins Slough near Tea this afternoon. She and I saw at least 5 of them. It was a life bird for...
Hi, Didn't see the Le Conte's at the one spot northeast of Corson today, but this morning on the way in, there were several at the spot just SE of EROS. ...
The warbler migration has been very bleek in the Ft Pierre area this fall. The only uncommon migrant warbler species to this area I have seen is 2 Nashville...
Today Caity Reiland-Smith and I went out to find the sparrows again, this time with a new friend from Augustana. Le Conte's found again at Atkins (where we met...
I checked near Miranda today for the Caracara. Just a cow carcass at the spot. Many Red-tailed Hawks and Northern Harriers in the area. Sharing is half the fun...
I took Jen out to try and find the Sabine's gull we saw last week at Keyhole Res.. We did not find the Juv. Sabine's but an Adult Sabine's Gull which was a...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Oct 4, 2008 12:53 am
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Today may have been the day the Turkey Vultures left Rapid City. I was southeast of town, along Old Folsom Road, when a long line of them flew over me at about...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Oct 4, 2008 6:25 pm
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With low clouds and a front coming through, today (Oct. 5) and tomorrow look promising for finding hawks, and I would urge birders around the Hills to be...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Oct 5, 2008 4:43 pm
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Birders, Saturday morning the Bird Club had a field trip to look for fall Migrants. The first place we went to was a wetland a couple of miles southeast of...
Michael Melius was dead on about hawks moving today. I spent a little more than a half hour on Dinosaur Hill between 2 and 3 pm scanning overhead. I pulled...
I was not as lucky as Caroline, only had 2 Red-tailed Hawks over Warren Peak in the Hills. Did have a flock of about 15 White crown sparrows, 1 clay-colored...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Oct 6, 2008 12:42 am
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Birded big bend dam this afternoon for an hour. Nothing really unusual. There was however, a single one of both American golden and black-bellied plovers on...
Todd Jensen
gyrfalcon@...
Oct 6, 2008 2:25 am
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Bill and I walked a bit at Atkins Slough looking for Le Conte Sparrows. No sparrows, it was pretty breezy. Then drove the road checking the wetlands. Sora,...
The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a field trip out of Sundance, Wyoming to Keyhole Dam on Saturday October, 11, 2008. Interested participants...
Ed Rodriquez at Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge contacted me this morning about the gull shot Sunday at Atkins Slough. It is of course illegal and Atkins...
At about 4:00 PM today (Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008), several relatively small flocks of Sandhill Cranes were heard and seen flying roughly south, high, east of...
Sandhill Cranes were observed over the Canyon Lake/Chapel Valley area of western Rapid City at approximately 4:15 p.m this afternoon. I only observed/heard one...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Oct 7, 2008 11:32 pm
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When Jen was driving home from work at 5this afternoon she spotted a large flock of sandhill cranes which landed in thefields around Seeley Res. just East of...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Oct 8, 2008 12:49 am
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I stepped outside after dinner about 6 pm and heard the cranes before seeing them. It's now 7 pm and they have been coming over in large groups in a steady...
I also had my first cranes of the fall, here in NE Custer Co. Just a couple small flocks, around noon and 5 pm. I wonder if observers in the eastern part of...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Oct 8, 2008 3:42 am
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well, i will add my two cents to the sandhill crane posts of yesterday. i observed six flocks yesterday. all were from 300 to 600 birds, each. michael...
After reading the sightings of sandhills moving south from everyone, I headed up on Skyline Drive after school today. Headed for the spot I had such good luck...
A visit to the Outdoor Campus in Sioux Falls Wednesday PM gave Mallards, RT hawk, Blue Jay, Downy WP, Harris' and Chipping Sparrows, Orange Crowned Warbler,...
mick
zerrm@...
Oct 9, 2008 3:57 am
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With the SDOU Fall Meeting this weekend. I would just like to share this thought. When you talk to these people at the meeting. I think it would be a great...
The forecast for Northeast Wyoming is for 6-12 inches of snow on Friday and Saturday. Part of the trip to Keyhole is over gravel roads and some of the viewing...
This afternoon a flock of about 800 sandhill cranes flew ove and circled our place to regroup and fly South. Jean, Sundance, Wy. [Non-text portions of this...
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