Ten members and two guests of the Northern Hills Bird Club participated in the field trip on February 28, 2009. The group met for coffee at McDonalds in...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Mar 1, 2009 4:11 pm
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Yesterday, February 28, a few waterbirds were observed at what is left of Canyon Lake in Rapid City. There remains, after the draining and laying of pipe in...
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 1, 2009 4:24 pm
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I saw my first Mt. Bluebird this morning, sitting in the top of a tree. Also had a Raven under the feeders a couple of days ago, the first for me. One of...
Please note that Cheryl Wormstadt's "bluebird" posting from this morning includes mention of some ravens in Spearfish. This is a rare species in our state, so...
m. melius
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Mar 1, 2009 5:35 pm
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The SFBC feeders are now up at Perry Nature Park east of Sioux Falls. To get there, take the main park road to the NW parking area. Walk west 150 feet to the...
mick
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Mar 1, 2009 11:15 pm
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Saturday morning birded along Elk Creek Rd. in Mead County. Saw a couple Red-tailed Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, horned larks, 9 sharp-tailed grouse,and some...
Jackie Stuckey-Strom and her husband, Dave, birded in Custer State Park today and observed 2 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches at the east entrance to the Wildlife...
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 2, 2009 1:03 am
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There were more ducks on Canyon Lake this morning, including 10 Redheads and 15 more Ring-necked Ducks. Gadwalls number had also increased as had Hooded...
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 2, 2009 1:08 am
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON Sunday, March 2 Big Sioux River, fishing in open water 30 yards south of the Russell Street bridge about 5 PM [Non-text portions of...
Tom Parliman
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Mar 2, 2009 2:14 pm
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON Sunday, March 1 Big Sioux River, fishing in open water 30 yards south of the Russell Street bridge about 5 PM Thomas W. Parliman 141...
Tom Parliman
tparliman@...
Mar 2, 2009 3:00 pm
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http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/26/extremely-rare-bird-photographed-for-first-time-then-eaten/ OOPS! K. C. Jensen, Ph.D. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries...
Dear South Dakota Birders: If you have not already done so, now is the time to enter your Winter 2008-2009 sightings into the online database so that they can...
Palmer, Jeff
Jeff.Palmer@...
Mar 2, 2009 10:24 pm
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The Brewer's and Rusty Blackbirds, first observed on the Spearfish CBC on January 4, were observed again today at the ranch on Helmer Road, Butte County....
Jocelyn Baker
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Mar 3, 2009 3:16 am
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A couple of recent posts deserve amplification. Doug Chapman recently mailed out a Bird Notes Index (all jazzed up with original artwork by Micheal Retter)...
Another hopeful sign spring. Golden-crowned Kinglets have returned to Hanna. I have now observed them three consecutive days. Though these birds can be...
Arrived home from school this afternoon (Tues.) to find male mountain bluebird in a tree out front of the house! Churring softly to himself, looking over the...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the sd-birds group. File :...
sd-birds@yahoogroups....
Mar 4, 2009 12:12 am
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Hi SD Birders, Since many people requested a copy, I uploaded the document I re-typed to SD-Birds group. It is posted on the site. All should have access. You...
Thanks to Jim Dunn, visiting here from Penn State, who checked the new Perry Nature Park feeders to see if the birds have found them. As he approached the...
mick
zerrm@...
Mar 4, 2009 4:06 am
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My regular game of saw-whet hide and seek turned up a third saw-whet owl on Farm Island this evening in the same area as the two previously reported birds....
KENNY MILLER
littlebend@...
Mar 4, 2009 4:28 am
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The BC Night Heron was back yesterday, March 3rd at 6pm south of the west Russell street bridge, in the open water. Thomas W. Parliman 141 N. Main, Suite 504 ...
Tom Parliman
tparliman@...
Mar 4, 2009 2:22 pm
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Hi All, I cannot find my Stokes guides Western and Eastern CDs. Caity Reiland- Smith wants to borrow them for her Ornithology class at Augie. I must have...
Thanks everyone. It worked. I got a response from the loanee. All is well. Doug Chapman SIoux Falls, SD ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Today's Hanna checklist was highlighted by the observation of two White-winged Crossbills, near Ward Pond (at the junction of Hanna Road and Long Draw). In...
I observed the two Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches today at the Visitor Center near the east entrance of the Wildlife Loop. They were in the exact same place that...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Mar 5, 2009 5:01 am
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My wife and I saw the same pair of birds at the same place about 4 p.m. Wednesday. Jim Williams Wayzata, Minnesota ... I observed the two Gray-crowned...
Carl Madsen called me to report a Hoary Redpoll feeding in a flock of about 50 common redpolls at his house on the North side of Lake Campbell in Brookings Co....
Dan Tallman's comments - in response to mine - about Red Crossbills is a good explanation - these birds are probably from Canada, and they only sound different...
I found Eastern Bluebirds along the Cheyenne River March 4-5, in NE Custer County. Earliest ever for me--not that I'm always in their habitat at this time of...