Hello everyone! I've been here in Jamestown, ND since this past Sunday. On the drive from St. Cloud to Jamestown (about a 4 hour drive), I saw some SUPERFANTASTIC birds! I keep a little side checklist of raptors and sightings on road trips. Here's my van list from that 4 hour trek:
Red-tailed Hawk - 55!!! (Including a dark morph that flew in front of my van, what a beautiful bird) American Kestrel - 12 Turkey Vulture - 4 Bald Eagle - 1 Northern Harrier - 5 Rough-legged Hawk -2 Unidentified buteo - 6 Unidentified accipiter - 1 Unidentified falcon - 1 Snow Buntings Swans (likely Trumpeters) Cackling Goose I went out in the field today, and visited Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge, just north of Jamestown, ND. From about 6:30am to about 10:00am today, I saw EARED GREBE - 3 today, my first of the year NORTHERN PINTAIL - literally hundreds and hundreds AMERICAN BLACK DUCK (a rarity for this location) Hooded Merganser - one pair Common Merganser - one pair Northern Shoveler -about 1 dozen today Common Goldeneye Greater Scaup Ring-necked Duck Mallard Snow Geese - likely over a thousand throughout this morning Canada Geese Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Sharp-tailed Grouse Horned Lark Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Western Meadowlark Pine Siskin Common Redpoll Here's sightings I've been observing around the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, where I'm working: Mallard Northern Pintail YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD - 1 yesterday, the first one for the county this year! Sharp-shinned Hawk (nearly nabbed a robin yesterday) Red-tailed Hawk Bald Eagle American Robin Ring-billed Gull Canada Goose Cackling Goose Brewer's Blackbird Pine Siskin Good birding, Erik Bruhnke [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
