With near total failure of all the sheetwaters shorebirds have been limited to the flood plain and an spot of offlimit road S of Bradgate. There was a Dunlin north of Ottosen in a grass marshland with a flock of Dowitchers. Dowitchers were also in high numbers in the areas around Bradgate as well as Wilson's Phalaropes and a few Least Sandpipers and a Semipalmated Plover. A particular treat and a first for me was to watch a Peregrine Falcon sally forth over a wetland trying to force some shorebirds to flush. I went to Bradgate Management area and relocated the pair of sapsuckers with further evidence of breeding with one of the pair actively searching cavities possibly for nesting purposes.
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]
