Hi All,

 

I met up with Jim & Sarah Michaels of Oxford, and Ed & Bev Neubauer of Englewood yesterday for a trip to Killdeer Plains.

 

In spite of the early morning gray skies, cool temperatures, and drizzling rain we had a great day that was punctuated at the end with sunlight, beautiful blue skies, and cotton-like clouds.

 

Surprises for the day included Black-bellied Plovers, Wilson's Snipe, Swamp Sparrows, quite a few Fox Sparrows, both nuthatch species, and a good suite of raptor species.

 

Casey



 

Common Loons - 6



Pied-billed Grebes - 31+ 

Trumpeter Swans 



Canada Geese 



Wood Duck

Gadwall  



Redhead



Great Blue Heron

Turkey Vultures 



American Coots



Black-bellied plovers 

Killdeer



Wilson's snipe  



Bonaparte's gulls - 12 



Ring-billed gulls



American Kestrel



Sharp-shinned hawks - 2 



Cooper's hawks

Northern harrier



Red-tailed hawks 



Bald eagles - 2 mature, 3 imm. 

Mourning dove 



Rock pigeons 

Northern mockingbird 

American Robin



Red-breasted nuthatch



White-breasted nuthatch



Pileated woodpecker 

Red-headed woodpeckers



Red-bellied woodpecker 



Northern Flickers  



Downy woodpecker



Belted kingfishers 

Carolina chickadee 

Golden-crowned kinglet 

Ruby-crowned kinglet 



Bluejays



American



Horned larks 

European starlings 

Yellow-rumped warbler 

Eastern towhee 

American tree sparrow



Chipping sparrow 



Song sparrow



Swamp sparrow 



Fox sparrows 

Dark-eyed junco 

White-throated sparrow 

White-crowned sparrow 

Eastern meadowlark



Red-winged blackbirds     



Rusty blackbird 

American goldfinches 

House sparrows \



Casey