Lena and I spent a few hours birding Red Rock today, and then visited Saylorville dam at dusk. Red Rock was >50% frozen. Here are the highlights:
Red Rock ------------- 13 sp. of waterfowl inc. a juv Long-tailed Duck off the marina 4 Common Loons 1 Horned Grebe 5 Thayer's Gulls (most off dam) 1 ad Lesser Black-backed Gull (dam) 6 Yellow-rumped Warblers (a single and a flock of 5) Saylorville ------------- 6 Trumpeter Swans 1 juv Red-throated Loon and 1 juv Common Loon stranded in open holes as described by Aaron 1 juv Thayer's Gull Steve ********** Stephen J. Dinsmore Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University 339 Science II Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-1348 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cootjr/ --- 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/PayDues.aspx. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
