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March 30, 2010
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* RBA
* North Dakota
* Statewide
* March 30, 2010
* NDST1003.30
- Transcript
Hotline: North Dakota Update
Date: March 30, 2010
Number: 701-527-0730
To Report: 701-527-0730
Coverage: Statewide
Compiler: Ken Torkelson
Compiled: March 30, 2010
Transcriber: Jane Kostenko
mailto: tork02@juno.com
- Birds Mentioned
Common Raven
Killdeer
Western Meadowlark
Northern Goshawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Mountain Bluebird
Greater Yellowlegs
Bald Eagle
Common Grackle
American Robin
Wood Duck
Common Goldeneye
Red-winged Blackbird
Horned Lark
Black-billed Magpie
Northern Harrier
Great Horned Owl
Mourning Dove
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
Pileaed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
American Tree Sparrow
Northrn Cardinal
Cedar Waxwing
Tundra Swan
Greater White-fronted Goose
Blue Jay
Rusty Blackbird
Peregrine Falcon
Gadwall
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Hooded Merganser
Ross' Goose
Northern Shoveler
Greater Scaup
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
American Crow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Sandhill Crane
Snow Goose
Rough-legged Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Northern Flicker
California Gull
Canada Goose
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Shrike
Snowy Owl
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Golden Eagle
White-winged Crossbill
Glaucous Gull
Franklin's Gull
Iceland Gull
Cooper's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Cackling Goose
Mallard
Ring-necked Pheasant
Purple Finch
Welcome to the North Dakota Rare Bird Alert compiled by the North
Dakota Birding Society. This report was prepared on Tuesday, Mar. 30.
Unless otherwise noted, any phone numbers mentioned are area code 701.
Transcriber's Note: Birds listed in ALL CAPS in the Birds Mentioned
section signify that the Revised Checklist of North Dakota Birds
lists them as Occasional, Accidental, Extirpated, or never having
occurred before for the season being reported.
What's NOT included in this week's report: mention of every robin, Canada
goose, snow goose, mallard and pintail sighting. However, there were a lot
of other sightings.
Dave Lambeth has found evidence of Grand Forks County's first nesting by
COMMON RAVENS. The site is near Emerado, and Dave adds that there
are no historical records of nesting by the species anywhere in the Red River
Valley.
In addition to that discovery on March 24, he also saw seasonal first KILLDEER
and
WESTERN MEADOWLARK. On March 28, Dave recorded a NORTHERN
GOSHAWK in a woodland along the Turtle River, and watched a kettle of about
45 RED-TAILED HAWKS with a few eagles. You can reach him at
davidlambeth58201@yahoo.com
Sandy Aubol discovered a lone MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD on the west side of Grand
Forks Air Force Base on March 30. She's at egf_baseball@yahoo.com
Eric Bruhnke recorded 25 species while birding Kellys Slough National Wildlife
Refuge
on March 30. Highlights included a single GREATER YELLOWLEGS, two BALD
EAGLES and lots of waterfowl species. Contact Eric at birdfdr@hotmail.com
Some more seasonal firsts for Sharon Watson at Buxton: March 28 brought her
first
COMMON GRACKLE, five AMERICAN ROBINS, RED-TAILED HAWK and
WOOD DUCK pair. In Traill and Grand Forks counties that day, she added COMMON
GOLDENEYE, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, HORNED LARK, KILLDEER,
WESTERN MEADOWLARK, BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE, BALD EAGLE,
NORTHERN HARRIER and a pair of GREAT HORNED OWLS. For details,
it's alanwat@infionline.net
From Horace, Linda Gregg's spring firsts included MOURNING DOVE. She also
recorded HOUSE FINCH, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, DARK-EYED JUNCO,
PILEAED WOODPECKER, RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, DOWNY WOODPECKER,
HAIRY WOODPECKER, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, AMERICAN TREE SPARROW,
both male and female NORTHRN CARDINAL, a few CEDAR WAXWINGS and a
WOOD DUCK pair. Contact Linda at lgregg@far.midco.net
Connie Norheim reported large flocks of TUNDRA SWANS between Mapleton and
Casselton
on March 24. They were in addition to a flyover by about 50 GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED
GEESE. At Embden Pines, Connie added AMERICAN ROBINS and BLUE JAYS, plus a
large flock of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS with a couple RUSTY BLACKBIRDS mixed in.
NDST
FALCONS were perched on a sign below the nest box in downtown Fargo. Call
Connie at
232-4386 for details.
Dean Riemer birded the flooded fields of eastern Cass County on March 26. He
recorded triple
digits of TUNDRA SWANS, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, in addition to GADWALL,
CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON
GOLDENEYE and HOODED MERGANSER. He returned the following day with Keith
Corliss,
and they added ROSS' GOOSE, WOOD DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, GREATER SCAUP,
BALD EAGLE, RED-TAILED HAWK, KILLDEER, RING-BILLED GULL, HERRING GULL,
AMERICAN CROW, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, SNOW BUNTING, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD
and WESTERN MEADOWLARK. A BROWN CREEPER visited Dean's West Fargo yard, and
Keith's yard attracted a GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. On March 26, Dean watched a
flock
of 17 SANDHILL CRANES north of Fargo. You can reach him at driemer@kwh.com
Dennis Wiesenborn reported over 1,000 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, plus TUNDRA
SWANS and a flock of 500 SNOW GEESE over north Fargo and Moorhead on March 29.
He also recorded a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN HARRIER. He notes that
KILLDEER
and small flocks of WOOD DUCKS are being seen up and down the Red River, and his
feeder regulars
include PILEATED WOODPECKER and RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. You can contact
Dennis at d.wiesenborn@ndsu.edu
Jean Legge recorded some seasonal firsts in Barnes and LaMoure counties. On
March 26, she saw a
WESTERN MEADOWLARK and COMMON GOLDENEYE in Barnes County, followed on
March 27 by eight COMMON GOLDENEYE and six CANVASBACKS in LaMoure County.
She also reported two mature BALD EAGLES dining on roadkill in Barnes County.
Call her at 845-4762.
Larry Igl relays more new arrivals from Stutsman County. They include five
COMMON
GOLDENEYE on March 22, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK about three miles southeast of
Jamestown on March 23, a NORTHERN FLICKER at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center on March 24, female NORTHERN CARDINAL at the center on March 26,
RING-BILLED
GULL over Jamestown on March 27, and three drake NORTHERN SHOVELERS and two
CALIFORNIA GULLS near the Jamestown airport and a WESTERN MEADOWLARK east
of Jamestown on March 28. You can reach Larry at 253-5511.
On March 24, Dan Buchanan watched two large flocks of SNOW GEESE over northeast
Jamestown,
followed by a RED-TAILED HAWK flyover, and a large movement of CANADA GEESE.
He's at 252-6604.
Larry Jones recorded a flock of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS south of Bowdon on March 28,
and also
reported many ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and RED-TAILED HAWKS moving through. His
feeders attracted a nice flock of DARK-EYED JUNCOS and AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS.
Larry also witnessed many WESTERN MEADOWLARKS along the roadsides and had a
close
flyover by a PEREGRINE FALCON. He's at jljones@daktel.com
Wayne Easley visited Lonetree Wildlife Management Area on March 26. He reported
both
RED-TAILED HAWKS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on the move, and also saw three adult
and one immature BALD EAGLES, and counted three active GREAT HORNED OWL nests.
Other sightings included a NORTHERN SHRIKE and a SNOWY OWL. Contact Wayne at
324-2344,
Near Carrington, Kim Breuer observed an adult BALD EAGLE. She's at
breuer@srt.com
Clark Talkington found REDHEAD and LESSER SCAUP during a March 22 visit to
McKenzie
Slough. On the following day, driving to Ashley and returning through McKenzie
Slough, he added
27,000 SNOW GEESE, TUNDRA SWANS, NORTHERN PINTAILS, GREEN-WINGED TEAL,
COMMON MERGANSERS, GOLDEN EAGLE, KILLDEER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK,
10,000 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, 12 WESTERN MEADOWLARKS and 30 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS.
Clark joined Corey Ellingson to lead a field trip to McKenzie Slough and the
Mandan Union
Cemetery on March 27. They recorded 17 species of waterfowl at McKenzie Slough,
and saw two pairs
of WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, which appeared to be nest-building at the Union
Cemetery. Clark
and Corey had good success at the Bismarck landfill. They recorded a total of
4000 gulls. Highlights
included a first-cycle GLAUCOUS GULL and a FRANKLIN'S GULL, which they saw
immediately
upon arrival, and later a first-cycle ICELAND GULL. Corey's March 29 walk
through Sleepy Hollow
Park in Bismarck flushed an early COOPER'S HAWK, which he says ties the
fifth-earliest record for
Bismarck-Mandan. Contact Corey at crackerjackbirder@bis.midco.net
Dan and Ila Svingen had an early FERRUGINOUS HAWK near a nest between Wilton and
Turtle
Lake on March 27. They also counted 15 RED-TAILED HAWKS and eight NORTHERN
HARRIERS,
plus WESTERN MEADOWLARKS, AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS,
and a few CACKLING GEESE, CANADA GEESE, MALLARDS and NORTHERN PINTAILS.
You can contact Dan at 250-4443, ext. 107.
From southwestern North Dakota, Jesse Kolar reports hearing WESTERN MEADOWLARKS
singing
near Manning on March 23. He also noted that RING-NECKED PHEASANTS seem to be
getting
more territorial. He's at jekolar@hotmail.com
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge was the destination of Gary and Sherry
Leslie on March 28.
They observed 10 NORTHERN HARRIERS, three RED-TAILED HAWKS, RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRDS,
RING-BILLED GULLS, MALLARDS, NORTHERN PINTAILS, SNOW GEESE, CANADA GEESE,
immature BALD EAGLE, HORNED LARKS, DARK-EYED JUNCOS and AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS.
At home between Burlington and Minot, they noted the earliest arrival of WOOD
DUCKS to their boxes on
March 28, and also noted hundreds of AMERICAN ROBINS and 20 RED-TAILED HAWKS.
Gary and
Sherry are at bird_nd@yahoo.com
Bernice Houser reports more late March arrivals near New Town. Recent sightings
included DARK-EYED
JUNCOS, AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS and MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS. She also notes the
return of
The PURPLE FINCH. Contact Bernice at sanishnd@rtc.coop
That concludes this report from the North Dakota Birding Society. This
report is normally updated each Tuesday.
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