I worked four BBA blocks in Franklin and Wright counties this morning, and then spent some time checking flooded fields for shorebirds and other waterbirds. Here is what I found:
Franklin County sheetwater: 1 Northern Shoveler 5 Green-winged Teal 3 Pied-billed Grebe 6 Cattle Egrets 1 Virginia Rail 6 Sora 2 Semipalmated Plover 287 Killdeer 9 Spotted Sandpiper 14 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 9 Willet 181 Lesser Yellowlegs 12 Semipalmated Sandpiper 88 Least Sandpiper 232 Pectoral Sandpiper 18 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Wilson's Snipe 1 Wilson's Phalarope 16 Franklin's Gull 1 Gadwall brood at Coulter Marsh 1 Henslow's Sparrow near Dows, Wright Co. a Prothonotary Warbler brood near Dows, Wright Co. and another male in Franklin Co. 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]
