The Iowa City bird Club and Friends birded Cone March this morning, and what an amazing morning. It is still March and we stood on the dike and did not shiver. Our eyes did not water scoping birds at the Caboose.
All in all we had ~60 species, very short on divers and passerines: Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, 1 possible Ross's Goose, Canada Goose, Wood Duck, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, Ruddy Duck, Ring-necked Pheasant, Pied-billed Grebe, American White Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Turkey Vulture, American Kestrel, American Coot, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Mourning Dove, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Western Flycatcher sp., Eastern Phoebe, Say's Phoebe, Vermilion Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Western Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, American Crow, Horned Lark, Black-capped Chickadee, American Robin, European Starling, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, and House Sparrow. Four cars, 14 people [+ the Schiebs and Dog Scheib in part] The Shrike was at its normal place on the NE of the intersection of 210th and T Aves, at the SE corner of the march. Rick Hollis North Liberty, IA "No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them." Aldo Leopold --- 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]
