Scouting for tomorrows bird count, I saw 7 species of ducks and 3 species of Geese. If this pattern holds for tomorrow, I beleive it would be a record number of waterfowl for the Ida County count. The best birds were my second ever record of American Black Duck for Ida County. Others included Red-breasted Merganser, Greater-white Fronted and Cackling Goose. There was also a Ring-billed Gull at Crawford Creek. The best birds however were 4-5 Short-eared Owls in a dense thicket adjacent to several hundred acres of grassland on the west side of Crawford lake.
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