Did some scouting yesterday and today for a Jackson County Bird Club group outing.
I believe ~67 species were seen in the Fairmont area between the scouting and the outing itself. I don't have a complete list of all birds seen today. However birds seen this weekend include: 7 White faced Ibis (not noticed Saturday, present Sunday am and pm)at Pierce Lake WPA 2 red Necked Grebes (Pierce Lake) Swainson's Hawk (1) Dowitcher sp (1)(Same location as Ibis) Some others: 1 Apparent Tundra swan (~80+% sure, went behind cattails before 100% confident) ~10+ Trumphter Swans (I think there were ~14 total swans ~10 were identified to Trumphter) Pied Billed Grebe (~3) Ring-billed Gull ~20 White fronted Geese (yesterday only, gone today) Least Sandpipers (2?) G Yellowlegs L Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpipers Snipe Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Red Tailed Hawk Cooper Hawk Kestral Turkey Vulture Downy Woodpecker Hairy WP red bellied WP Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers (~3) Kingfisher (2) L Scaup (probably ~50) Ringnecked Duck (probably nearly 100) Pintail (2) Gadwall (probably 100s) Shovelers (100s) Hooded Mergansers (~10) Green winged teal (probably nearly 100) E Phoebe (1) Tree Swallow (10s) P Martin (~6) Junco (1) Vesper Sparrow (many) White Throated Sparrow (1) Song Sparrow (several on saturday) Horned Lark Meadowlark sp (~2) Cardinal (1) E Blue Birds (~6) Ruby Crowned Kinglets (2) Hermit Thrush (~3) Cormorants (100) Harriers (8) There was some apparent migratory activity involving a couple flocks of shore birds and a flock of cormorants. In the limited observations with repeated visits; Yellowlegs (and shorebirds in general)seemed more common today than yesterday. Most of the time was spent observing open country and wetlands - which biased the observations. Butterflies: Red Admirals were everywhere, others apparent. For those interested in wildflower timing; Blood root seemed to be done blooming. Jack in pulpit (many flowering) and trillium (only one seen with flower) (other than snow trillium) are apparently pretty early in blooming. Several other species blooming as well. Sorry about the rough format and spelling. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
