Birders, Sorry for the late post on some of this stuff, but I have seen a few interesting birds the past couple of days:
At Gray's Lake on Friday, while looking at waterfowl, an Eastern Meadowlark (ID'd by call) flew in and perched high in a Cottonwood tree. It sat there for about a minute than continued on. Clearly a pausing migrant, and probably the most unexpected bird I have ever seen at Grays Lake! On Saturday, on my way to Iowa Falls, I stopped at Little Wall Lake and didnt have near the diversity some of you have. Mostly just Lesser Scaup, Redhead, Common Mergansers, and a few Mallards. I also had a male Northern Harrier near Williams. I had a small group of about 5 Rusty Blackbirds at Bjorkboda Marsh in Hamilton County as well. Today, I ran into Aaron Brees and got great looks at the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull as well as the unusual 1st year gull. I did not see the Thayer's however. At Moeckley Prairie, I saw 300 or so Greater White-fronted Geese and about 75 Snow Geese. Good birding, John Bissell Grimes --- 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]
