Hello again! First off, I wanted to make a correction on the sightings that I wrote up earlier this past week. We had seen a Little Blue Heron, not a Tricolored Heron. What a beautiful and petite heron! Sorry about the typo on that one.
Not to post too much on the Minnesota listserve, but I want to share just a little more of what I've been seeing here in central NoDak. Here's my e-bird list from this past saturday at Chase Lake... This was the first time I drove the entire Chase Lake Birding Drive (north of Medina). I arrived at the birding drive at sunrise, and birdwatched for about 7 1/2 hours. I highly recommend this drive if you're ever in the central North Dakota Region! Location: Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge Observation date: 7/25/09 Number of species: 64 Canada Goose 10 Wood Duck 1 Gadwall 15 Mallard 85 Blue-winged Teal 30 Northern Shoveler 15 Northern Pintail 10 Redhead 80 Lesser Scaup 20 Ruddy Duck 50 Sharp-tailed Grouse 8 Pied-billed Grebe 35 Eared Grebe 2 Western Grebe 30 American White Pelican 50 Double-crested Cormorant 9 Great Egret 7 Snowy Egret 12 Cattle Egret 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron 6 Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Krider's) 5 Ferruginous Hawk 3 American Kestrel 1 Sora 4 American Coot 15 Killdeer 20 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Upland Sandpiper 2 Marbled Godwit 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Stilt Sandpiper 7 Wilson's Snipe 2 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Ring-billed Gull 25 California Gull 15 Common Tern 1 Northern Flicker 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Western Kingbird 8 Eastern Kingbird 8 Tree Swallow 35 Bank Swallow 20 Cliff Swallow 45 Barn Swallow 20 American Robin 2 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 7 Clay-colored Sparrow 7 Savannah Sparrow 12 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Le Conte's Sparrow 1 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 2 Chestnut-collared Longspur 1 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Western Meadowlark 2 Brewer's Blackbird 30 Brown-headed Cowbird 20 Orchard Oriole 1 Good birdwatching, Erik Bruhnke Stutsman Co, ND [email protected] www.pbase.com/birdfedr ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
