Hello Birders, Paul Roisen, Rex Rundquist, and I turned an early morning search for the Pileated Woodpecker at Winnebago Bend into a full day of birding. The morning hours went by fast as we tromped all around the woods in search of the woodpecker, which did not make an appearance for us. We really got with the program in the afternoon hours, tallying 133 species (without all of eastern Iowa's warblers) before we called it quits at 9pm. Yellow Warbler, Dickcissel and Orchard Oriole showed up en masse today.
Among the 14 species of waterfowl, 20 shorebird species, 9 warbler species, and 13 sparrow species we had the following highlights: 1 Snow Goose at Owego 2 Redhead at New Lake 1 Horned Grebe at New Lake 2 Eared Grebe at New Lake 5 American Bittern at Table Marsh 2 Snowy Egret at Table Marsh 4 Cattle Egret at Sioux Jersey 13 Black-crowned Night-Heron at Table Marsh 1 Osprey near Port Neal (on a nest) 1 Peregrine Falcon at Winnebago Bend 1 Virginia Rail at New Lake 1 Black-bellied Plover at Owego 24 American Golden-Plover at the Tannery & South Sloan BBA Block 61 Hudsonian Godwit at Table Marsh, Sandhill Lake, New Lake 1 Yellow-throated Vireo at Winnebago Bend 2 Swainson's Thrush at Winnebago Bend 1 Blackpoll Warbler at Winnebago Bend 1 Northern Waterthrush at Winnebago Bend 3 Spotted Towhee at Winnebago Bend 2 Great-tailed Grackle at Table Marsh Good Birding, Tucker J. Lutter Bronson, IA (712)-948-3696 --- 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]
