Big Country Audubon Society

Sightings

February 23, 2008 - Waste Water Field Trip

Best bird(s) of the morning:

  • Snow Goose - 1
  • Cinnamon Teal - 4 gorgeous males
  • White-faced Ibis - 5
  • Sedge Wren - 1
  • American Pipit - 2
  • Brewer’s Blackbird - 3

Complete List:

  • Snow Goose - 1
  • Gadwall - 12
  • Green-winged Teal - 350
  • Mallard - 2
  • Northern Pintail - 12
  • Cinnamon Teal - 4
  • Northern Shoveler - 48
  • Bufflehead - 16
  • Ruddy Duck - 5
  • Pied-billed Grebe - 1
  • Eared Grebe - 1
  • Great Blue Heron - 1
  • Great Egret - 1
  • White-faced Ibis - 5
  • Northern Harrier - 3
  • Red-tailed Hawk - 1
  • American Kestrel - 2
  • American Coot - 250
  • Killdeer - 12
  • Long-billed Dowitcher - 100
  • Greater Yellowlegs - 10
  • Ring-billed Gull - 35
  • Mourning Dove - 10
  • Northern Flicker - 1
  • Loggerhead Shrike - 2
  • Horned Lark - 1
  • Black-crested Titmouse - 1
  • Sedge Wren - 1
  • Eastern Bluebird - 1 (East Lake Rd)
  • Northern Mockingbird - 1
  • European Starling - 36
  • American Pipit - 2
  • Vesper Sparrow - 8
  • Savannah Sparrow - 24
  • Lincoln’s Sparrow - 1
  • White-crowned Sparrow - 50
  • Dark-eyed Junco - 36 (CR 504 in Hamby)
  • Northern Cardinal - 1 (CR 504 in Hamby)
  • Pyrrhuloxia - 1 (CR 306)
  • Red-winged Blackbird - 50
  • Eastern Meadowlark - 25
  • Western Meadowlark - 3
  • Brewer’s Blackbird - 3
  • Great-tailed Grackle - 5
  • House Finch - 2
  • American Goldfinch - 18

Sightings by Kathy Hampton, Dan Symonds, and LgPacker

February 22, 2008: Scouting trip produced much the same birds as above but these birds were also seen:

  • Blue-winged Teal - 3
  • Lesser Scaup - 3
  • Wilson’s Snipe - 9
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove - 2
  • Marsh Wren - 1
  • Field Sparrow - 3
  • Lark Bunting - 1
  • Song Sparrow - 2
  • Swamp Sparrow - 1
  • Brown-headed Cowbird - 1,200 (yes, this is no typo)

These sightings by Kathy Hampton and LgPacker

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