What a beautiful morning it was on the refuge! Mosquitos not horrible,
slight breeze, warm, not humid. I had 73 species - nothing out of the
ordinary, just a wonderful morning to be out.
*BIRD NOTES*
Birds are nesting and hollering all over the place, despite super-high
water levels and some obv
There was a nice collection of the common raptors and a few mi
Hi All,
There was a nice collection of the common raptors and a few migrant songbirds
on the Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive today. Thrashers, catbirds and a variety
of sparrows were joined by chestnut-sided, black and white, mourning
A quick loop around the Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive this morning showed a lot
of bird activity. Young birds begging and flying around, or sitting on the
road, gathering swallows and blackbirds in small flocks. Quite a few birds
were still singing, including orioles, grosbeak, towhee, clay-co
There was a nice collection of birds seen on Saturday by our bird tour group,
and a few more on Sunday. A common gallinule was seen and heard calling early
on Sunday morning from the traditional spot on Big Bluestem Pool. A Henslow's
sparrow was near the beginning of the Prairie Trail on the P
A rose-breasted grosbeak is visiting the refuge headquarters feeder today.
Pine warbler is new today. Also seen were black and white, orange-crowned,
Nashville, yellow and yellow-rumped.
There were two lark sparrows singing on territory on the Orrock Town Hall Road,
just off CR 4, east of Or
Three great egrets just landed by the river here at our refuge headquarters.
Cool! Also have up to 6 fox sparrows at the feeder. Yellow-rumped warblers
yesterday and this morning. Brown creepers in the yard last Thursday and again
today. A volunteer heard and saw greater yellowlegs flying o
Chickadees are beginning to sing their spring song now with lengthening days.
A single robin flew in to the HQ feeding area yesterday, checking out the
action. Our biology staff was out last week checking bald eagle nests, and 5
of the 10 nests that have been active in recent years had pairs o
I spent about 2 hours early this morning on the Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive
and tallied 81 species. I found very few migrant songbirds, most sightings
were birds that breed here. Areas that were alive with migrants on Monday were
very quiet this morning. No cormorants were present.
I foun
There's a fox sparrow too!
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Hi All,
The Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive at Sherburne NWR remains open. It seems we
had quite a few visitors during the storm last Saturday - both people and
birds. One of our roving interpreters noted a great horned owl at the back
side of the drive near Stickney Pool, and a pair of bald e
Two tree swallows were flying up and down the river outside HQ again this
morning. Maybe they don't know which direction to go?
Rusty blackbirds still here, along with a few red-winged. Lots of goldfinches
today, and about 6 purple finches.
Northern shrike has been chasing birds around the
Lots of American tree sparrows around the refuge today. Several northern
shrikes are being seen along county roads in the area. At the headquarters
feeder there have been purple finches, American goldfinches, a fox sparrow and
a rusty blackbird, along with the normal winter feeder birds. Ther
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