Late this morning I had a juvenile LEAST BITTERN walk within about 20 feet from me on the main dike at Cone Marsh. It was about 150 feet down the dike from the west parking lot. The dike is heavily overgrown. Right where the tall grass becomes mixed with other grasses/weeds and on the north side is where it saw me. Being a juvenile, I was probably the first human it had ever seen. It checked me out for a while while I checked it out with my camera. About 10 minutes later it flushed. I was still in manual focus and missed an incredible opportunity to get flight shots! There were also around a dozen Eurasian Tree Sparrows near the entrance of that same dike parking lot. I saw a single Eurasian Collared Dove in Lone Tree.
Good birding, Brandon Caswell 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]
