The Saylorville Reservoir CBC was held on Sunday, December 15th and tallied a respectable 79 species, one above the long-term average. Highlights included 11 species of waterfowl, Great Blue Heron, N. Saw-whet Owl, all 7 regular woodpecker species, 4 Merlins, Townsend's Solitaire, both meadowlarks, and Vesper Sparrow. We beat last year's record low count for Ring-necked Pheasant (7) with just 5 this year. And, despite being surrounded by Snowy Owls, we were unable to pin one down during the count.
Steve ********** Stephen J. Dinsmore Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University 203 Science II Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-1348 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cootjr/ --- 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]. Unsubscribe at http://iowabirds.org/Reporting/Listserv.aspx.
