My friend Courtney Turnis accidentally flushed a small sparrow from a ground nest on a reconstructed prairie a few days ago and then photographed the four eggs. After checking a book and the Internet, I'm 99% sure it was a grasshopper sparrow nest (with no cowbird eggs, yay!) The nest was on land northeast of the intersection of 250th Street and Sand Hill Trail about a mile southeast of Ames. Cindy Hildebrand [email protected] Ames, IA 50010
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