I spent this morning doing some BBA work in Humboldt County, and also checking sheetwater for migrant shorebirds. Here is what I found in flooded fields:
many Mallards (mostly molting males) 11 Blue-winged Teal 5 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Sora 3 Semipalmated Plover 269 Killdeer 6 Spotted Sandpiper 12 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 118 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Upland Sandpiper 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 40 Least Sandpiper 69 Pectoral Sandpiper 16 Stilt Sandpiper 4 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Long-billed Dowitcher (a calling adult seen well) 1 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Black Tern Other birds: 1 worn first-alternate Bonaparte's Gull and 1 Black-billed Cuckoo (my first of the year) at Little Wall Lake 2 Forster's Terns each at Brushy Creek and Little Wall Lake 1 female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in BBA block 214 Yesterday evening I found a Hooded Merganser brood in sheetwater near our house. The young couldn't have been more than a day or two old. Steve ********** Stephen J. Dinsmore Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University 339 Science II Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-1348 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cootjr/ --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
