My husband and went looking for waterfowl at Twin Lakes. Here's a recap:
Location: South Twin Lake Observation date: 3/18/11 Notes: Still a fair amount of ice on the water. Also saw many gulls, but could not ID them. Number of species: 5 Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 5 Common Merganser 46 Mix of Male and Female; did not try to count by gender Downy Woodpecker 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Location: North Twin Lake-General Observation date: 3/18/11 Notes: Also gulls we weren't able to ID, and ducks too far out to ID clearly. Number of species: 8 Canada Goose 7 Bufflehead 2 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 4 Standing on ice on the Lake American Robin 33 Mostly at Featherstone European Starling 2 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 1 Lorinda H. M. Hoover, OSL [email protected] --- 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]
