>From Alan Grenon:
From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Forney's Lake today Ross, Greetings from Bellevue, where I'm visiting Mom from Seattle. If you think it worthwhile, feel free to forward the following to the IA list. Cheers, Alan G. Greetings, all, Forney's Lake this afternoon (11 April, 2012) still had thousands of birds, with 20 spp. of waterfowl, including a male CINNAMON TEAL, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANs (one with a neck collar), at least five GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, about ten SNOW GEESE (two blue), one ROSS'S GOOSE, one female BUFFLEHEAD, one male CANVASBACK, a couple brown HOODED MERGANSERS (more were at Bartlet, with a pair of RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS), plus thousands of coots and shovelers, hundreds of AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, three gull spp., and one PEREGRINE FALCON, among else. We didn't find other rarities (nor night-herons, though we saw a couple dozen GREAT EGRETS). Earlier at Saint Mary's Island (six miles south of the Bellevue bridge) were GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL, BAIRD'S, and LEAST SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE, VESPER, SAVANNAH, and SONG SPARROWs, and a NORTHERN HARRIER. [Wood Ducks in NE brought our day list to 22 Anseriformes.] Cheers, Alan Grenon Visiting from Seattle --- 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]
