Went and checked some flooded fields today along the flood-prone Crane Creek in Northern Black Hawk Co. for shore birds and found some. Most noteable: 1 Hudsonian Godwit at Sage Sanctuary which is along Crane Creek. Other shore birds amongst the many L. and G. Yellow-legs and Pectorals were: 2 Short-Billed Dowitchers 3 Dunlins 4 Bairds S. 16 Golden Plovers Also 1 Peregrine Falcon Sedge and Marsh Wrens at Leopold Wildlife Refuge 1 Mourning Warbler at George Wyth S.P.
Good Birding, Tommy Stone Evansdale --- 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]
