Birders, Last night (6/4) Kevin Murphy, Tyler Harms, and I birded the Lucas Unit of Stephen's State Forest hoping for goatsuckers. We had several Whip-poor-wills and at least two different Chuck-will's-widows following Keith Dyche's earlier directions. Thanks Keith! Chuck-will's-widow was Iowa bird number 300 for both Tyler and I!
I was happy to hear a Tufted Titmouse singing in our yard this morning (yard bird #92, which I've been waiting years for) so I took a chance and tried (for the fourth time) for a Bell's Vireo that Steve Dinsmore had reported a while back south of Ames. My luck still held: Iowa bird number 301! Then this evening I scoped Jester Park at Saylorville but the shorebird numbers were way down. Some Semipalmated and White-rumped Sandpipers and four Semipalmated Plovers. The Northern Mockingbird is still singing like crazy from the dead tree just before you drop down to the boat ramp. I also stopped at the Iowa Arboretum west of Luther on the way home and the Yellow-crowned Night Heron that Billy Reiter-Marolf reported was still there. Thanks Billy, that was a new Iowa bird for me too! Paul Skrade Ames, Story Co. -- Paul D. B. Skrade Ph.D. Candidate Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management 209 Science II Building Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 U.S.A. Office: (515)294-8419 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~skradepa/ --- 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]
