The ponds at Cone Marsh (Louisa County) are still frozen (no surprise) but geese are present, hardly any ducks yet tho. About 1000 geese were there today, mostly Canadas, but also around 100 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and a handful of SNOW GEESE.
A lovely dark ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was working the east side of the marsh. EURASIAN TREE SPARROWS were numerous in the area around the white house just to the west of the SW corner of the marsh -- both sides of the road and at the feeders. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS were present there also. In Lone Tree (Johnson County) mama GREAT-HORNED OWL is on her nest (she's been on the nest since at least Jan. 13 when I first saw her there) and papa is standing guard. On the way to Cone Marsh I made a circuit of the gravel roads around the Cedar Rapids Airport (Linn County) and found my first LAPLAND LONGSPURS of the year. Diana Pesek Cedar Rapids --- 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]
