8:30-10:00AM Sunday August 19th Very quiet most of the time but 3 pockets of warbler/chickadee--mostly from the trail by the main parking area (playground equipment) traveling northwards to Harrison/4th Street NW corner. Covered the trail twice. The pockets would disappear only to reappear on another pass.
Canada Goose 26 (flyover) Mallard numerous Turkey Vulture 6 roosting of the creek Cooper's Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Morning Dove 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 1st one in quite some time. Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood Pewee 4 suspected Yellow-bellied Flycatcher but no confirmation as it disappeared before I could get good looks at it Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Barn Swallow Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 3 House Wren Black-capped Chickdee numerous White-breasted Nuthatches 8-9 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 2 Tennessee Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 1st year Black-throated Green 1 (despaired of seeing one of these this year) American Redstart 3 male 1 female 2 Canada 1 (as many as have been seen this year I cannot believe it was a FOY) SPARROWS ZERO Northern Cardinal 5 American Goldfinch numerous House Sparrow (I guess I did see a sparrow) Hoping to see the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron this evening with Rita Goranson's help. God Bless, Paul Roisen Sioux City, IA Woodbury County 712-276-0371(H) 712-301-2817(C) --- 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]
