I took advantage of the sunshine yesterday and did some breeding bird atlasing in Marion and Jasper counties. The wind made it harder to detect singing males, so I ended up with 45 species:
Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Coot Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow - nest with young Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle American Goldfinch House Sparrow Jenni Dyar Ankeny, Polk County --- 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]
