Headed out from Sioux City at 4:00AM Sunday with Black-throated Blue and Western Sandpiper on my target list. Great day of birding with Diane Pesek and Jim Forde!
14 species of warbler is probably my high Fall count (western Iowa seems a little stingy with fall warblers). Black-throated Blues were raining all around me: 1 at Greenbelt Lake, 2 in Solan, and 2 in Squaw Creek! Wow! Now I do not wish to brag but I managed, with some very careful planning, to successfully AVOID every last one of them. Western Sandpiper was seen. It was the closest bird to me when I got out of my vehicle at Swan Lake. Great looks at it side by side with a Semipalmated Sandpiper. One target bird out the two. Maybe a Black-throated will break through my defenses tomorrow and force me to look at it. New places, great friends, birds flying all about, Swallow-tailed Kites showing up. How can it get better than that. Get out and enjoy. 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]
