Tuesday, May 31, 2011

2011 May Yardbirds


Birds around my yard in Bridgeton

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

5-27/28 SE Mo


Otter Slough Conservation Area • Dunklin County Kenneth Area After looking around Otter Slough CA and not seeing much we headed to the Missouri bootheal to visit the Kenneth Area to try and find the White Ibis reported there. We found 28 of them across the levee from Cash Memorial Conservation Area.

The White Ibis is my 306th "Bird Species Photographed in Missouri".

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Wood Ducks Eastern Phoebe Dickcissel Common Moorhen Green Heron Loggerhead Shrike White Ibis White Ibis White Ibis Little Blue Heron White Ibis and Little Blue Heron White Ibis White Ibis White Ibis and Little Blue Heron White Ibis White Ibis White Ibis Snow Egrets and White Ibis White Ibis White Ibis and Little Blue Heron White Ibis Snowy Egret and Black-necked Stilt Black-necked Stilt Black-necked Stilt Dunklin County Kenneth Area


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5/04 Springfield Area


Springfield, Mo. Swainson's Hawk • Cuba Mo. Area

Found a Swainson's Hawk which is my 305th "Bird Species Photographed in Missouri".

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

5/03 Western Missouri


Roads around Taberville Prairie • 4-Rivers and Shell-Osage • Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie After the ASM meeting we headed south hoping to find a Greater Prairie Chicken at one of the conservation areas. Our first stop was Weston Bend State Park to see the new trail signs that have some of my photos on them. I found one, first thumb below. At Taberville Prairie we ran into an agent radio tracking the chickens and was told where we might find them at Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie. We parked on the side of the road and just before sunset they started to appear about 120 yards out there. We eventually saw some heads pop up over the rise, none would come out for a full body view though. I counted about nine birds. They all took off to go to roost and I managed two flight shots. A radio antenna is visibly in the last photo.

Found a Greater Prairie Chicken which is my 305th "Bird Species Photographed in Missouri".

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Weston Bend State Park Northern Mockingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Red-tailed Hawk Taberville Prairie Meadowlark sp. Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Eastern Kingbird Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Savannah Sparrow Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie Greater Prairie Chicken Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie

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Monday, May 2, 2011

5/02 Squaw Creek NWR


Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge We returned to Squaw Creek NWR Monday morning and found the Eurasian Wigeon close just inside the front entrance. It was associating with a male and female American Wigeon.

Found a Clay-colored Sparrow which is my 303th "Bird Species Photographed in Missouri".

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Clay-colored Sparrow Eurasian Wigeon Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Eurasian Wigeon (male) and American Wigeon (female) Eurasian Wigeon (male) and American Wigeon (female) Eurasian Wigeon Eurasian Wigeon House Wren Hooded Merganser (female) Dowitcher sp. American Avocet Dowitcher sp.

Eurasian Wigeon

Dowitcher sp.

Wilson's Phalarope


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