Hello everyone! Just thougth I'd drop ya a line and let you know what I've been seeing here in central SD. I saw my first butterbut (Yellow-rumped Warbler) for South Dakota today, and also saw a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3 Red Crossbills (all here in town), and counted just over 2 dozen Greater Prairie Chickens throughout select surveying locations this morning. Here's my ebird data for today:
Yesterday afternoon while conducting bird surveys throughout the fields south of Ree Hights, I had a fantastic time seeing: Location: Fields south of Ree Heights Observation date: 4/17/09 Number of species: 33 Canada Goose 4 Gadwall 12 Mallard 10 Blue-winged Teal 4 Northern Shoveler 6 Northern Pintail 8 Green-winged Teal 2 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 4 Greater Scaup 20 Bufflehead 1 Greater Prairie-Chicken 30 Pied-billed Grebe 1 American White Pelican 15 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Northern Harrier 1 Swainson's Hawk 3 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Coot 30 Killdeer 2 Marbled Godwit 3 Wilson's Snipe 1 Franklin's Gull 77 Rock Pigeon 2 Tree Swallow 2 American Robin 1 European Starling 10 Vesper Sparrow 3 Savannah Sparrow 4 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Western Meadowlark 8 Brewer's Blackbird 100 Common Grackle 25 Here's what I observed this morning just south of Highmore while conducting some bird surveys - this also includes birdwatching that I did after returning back home to Highmore for a little bit: Location: Highmore Observation date: 4/18/09 Notes: GPCH counts were done via morning surveys immediately south of Highmore Number of species: 22 Greater Prairie-Chicken 29 Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Harrier 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Franklin's Gull 15 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 (My first of the season) Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 4 Blue Jay 1 Brown Creeper 1 (my first of the season) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 (My first of the season) American Robin 20 European Starling 25 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (my first of the season) Common Grackle 20 House Finch 2 Red Crossbill 3 (although likely here throughout the winter, my first of the season) Pine Siskin 4 House Sparrow 5 Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Hyde Co. [email protected] www.pbase.com/birdfedr/naturallyavian ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
