Did some searching in central Iowa today and yesterday. Yesterday Beemer's was relatively active with coots, N. Pintail, Redheads, L. Scaup, Canvasbacks, a couple of Snow Geese, some Greater White-fronted Geese, Cackling and Canada Geese. A similar mix was to be found at Little Wall Lake yesterday.
Today though a few small rafts (10-20) of Common Mergansers had joined the mix. Also at Bjorkboda six Trumpeter Swans were standing out with some Greater White-fronted Geese, Canada Geese, Cackling Geese a N. Pintail and a couple of L. Scaup. Also at Bjorkboda was a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk and a very late stage juv. Bald Eagle. At the pasture on 110th street and George Washington Carver Ave two Killdeer were observed at a mud wallow. Jacob Newton Ottosen, Humboldt Co., IA --- 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]
