Today, my dad, Rose, and I went to some of our favorite places to bird in Black Hawk Co. We started out at Prairie Lakes, near Cedar Falls, and walked around the marshy area on the east side that has been good for herons, bitterns, rails, and shorebirds. We flushed 1 Least Bittern that we got great looks at. Then we went to George Wyth S.P. AT East Lake, we flushed up 2 Ad. Yellow-Crowned Night herons that were roosting in some willows. So then, we checked an area there, that is good for shorebirds and terns,and found 1 male R. Turnstone in breeding plumage. It was a pretty good day for passerines as there was many warblers, vireos, and thrushes today. We tallied up 19 species of warblers. Noteable birds we seen today: Common Tern 1 Caspian Tern 10 Forester's Tern 9 Connecticut Warbler 2 Mourning Warbler 2- G.W.S.P=1 Black H.Park=1 Cape May Warbler 1- Black Hawk Park Bells Vireo 2- Cedar Prairie Olive-Sided Flycatcher 2- B.H.P. Black-Billed Cuckoo 1- B.H.P. R.S. Hawk 6- at four different locations Trumpeter Swan 1 juv.- Beaver Valley Meadows
Yesterday I saw a Peregrine F. a Bells Vireo, and a White-Eyed Vireo at Cedar River Nat. Resource Area near Washburn. 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]
