After helping with the Des Moines CBC for most of today I made a quick stop at Saylorville on my way home. The lake is still mostly open with many Common Mergansers, but little else. Among the gulls I found a juvenile Iceland Gull and 3 Thayer's Gulls, best viewed from Sandpiper Beach. There is also a lingering Common Loon off the dam, and I discovered why it's still there - it has a broken right wing.
I checked on Tyler Harms' Snowy Owl less than a half hour after he found it and it was gone. I drove the roads in a one mile radius, but no luck. It is probably somewhere nearby. 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]
