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
