Montana (Statewide) RBA
June 28, 2007

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- RBA
 
* Montana
* Montana RBA
* 06-28-04
* MTMS200706.28
 
- Birds Mentioned
 
SNOWY EGRET
SNOWY PLOVER
RED PHALAROPE
Caspian Tern
LEAST TERN
Alder Flycatcher
Boreal Chickadee
Black-billed Cuckoo
BLUE GROSBEAK
Red-breasted Grosbeak
Purple Finch
LESSER GOLDFINCH
 
- Transcript
 
hotline: Montana
number: 406-721-9799
to report: Terry Toppins home 406-549-6027, cell 214-1194 or _tertop@aol.com_ 
(mailto:tertop@aol.com) 
coverage: entire state
 
This is Terry Toppins with the Montana Birding Hotline sponsored by Five  
Valleys
Audubon Society recorded late Thursday June 28th, 2007.
 
Fritz Prellwitz reported a SNOWY EGRET and a CASPIAN TERN at the northern  tip
of Nelson Reservoir just east of Malta today June 28th.
George Mowat reports that a LESSER GOLDFINCH was seen today at the  Rehberg
Ranch Subdivision where they were found last year.  On the rims north  of 
Billings go 
west of the airport on Hiway 3 and turn north on Rod and Gun Club Road, go  
1/2 mile 
and turn west onto Iron Horse Trail, go 4 tenths of a mile and park on the  
right at a 
small log building and go down the trail at the entrance to the parking  lot. 
 It was 
seen in a Pine Tree today.
Richard Mousel says a second LESSER GOLDFINCH has been reported from 
Fort Benton today the 28th.
Wednesday June 27th Jean Olson and her daughter Jeanie found a pair of BLUE 
GROSBEAKS at the pond in Warren.  They also saw a female BLUE  GROSBEAK
on the road to the Pryors just before it rises steeply towards Red  Dome.
Richard Mousel had a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK visit his yard in Great  Falls
on June 27th.
June 26th Pete Smith was in Glacier National Park and rode his  bicycle up 
the North
Fork Road and found an ALDER FLYCATCHER 2.5 miles north of the  Fish Creek 
Campground about 50 yards east of the road.  He then found a BOREAL  CHICKADEE
on a snag on the east side of the road 3.54 miles north of  the Fish Creek 
Campground.
Dan Casey had two great finds.  The evening of June 18th he found a  breeding 
plumaged
RED PHALAROPE on Farm Road Slough northeast of Somers.  Farm Road is  north 
of 
Highway 82 between Somers and Big Fork and as you head north there is only  
one 
wetland.  The next morning he found a SNOWY PLOVER.  The last  report for the
phalarope I have was on June 20th and the plover was last reported  June 21 
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS have been reported from several locations.  Gary  Swant
and Nate Kohler on June 25th found one at the Wolf Point River Bridge and  
then 
found a pair south of the Culbertson River Bridge both on the Missouri  
River.  
Garrett MacDonald has been doing
point counts for the Forest Service and found a single BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO  
in 
the Ekalaka Hills near Ekalaka on June 14th and then found two more 12  miles 
south
of Glendive in a dense Juniper woodland.
June 17th Bob Rost reported a pair of PURPLE FINCHES at his home northeast  
of 
Ronan.
Wayne Tree and Bob Danley had a spectacular find of a LEAST TERN at Lee  
Metcalf
NWR near Stevensville on June 10th.  It was not subsequently  relocated.
If you have sightings you would like to share or need more information,  
please leave 
a message or call Carole or Terry at 549-6027.  Thanks and good  birding to 
you.
HL-272.
 
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