Yesterday I birded my way to the IOU meeting, stopping at Saylorville and Red Rock reservoirs. At Saylorville I found 8 Common Loons and 1 Western Grebe. The most interesting bird (to me) was a Eurasian Collared-Dove at Sandpiper Beach, which I watched as it flew high to the south along the east shoreline of the lake. I've always suspected a few of Iowa's bird migrate south in fall, and this bird had the look of a migrant to me.
At Red Rock I found 13 waterfowl species including my first fall Canvasback, 9 Common Loons, and 12 species of shorebirds that included many Black-bellied and American Golden plovers and a juvenile Hudsonian Godwit. 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]
