Yesterday, four of us from ISU (Mica Rumbach, Corey Lange, Paul Skrade, and I) birded from Ames to Spirit Lake and back. At Beemer's Pond there were 9 waterfowl species including 210 Trumpeter Swans and 3 adult Tundra Swans. Next, we looked for but did not find the White-winged Crossbills in Algona. However, a short time later we found a flock of 7 White-winged Crossbills at a small cemetery in extreme SE Dickinson Co. at the junction of 240th Street and 330th Avenue. Then, we relocated one of the Snowy Owls (a very dark juvenile female) just east of the junction of 240th Street and 240th Avenue southeast of Milford. There were lots of Horned Larks and Lapland Longspurs along the roadsides with a few Snow Buntings.
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]
