April Highlights

The rest of April
Bird highlights throughout April including yardbirds.

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A few of the birds seen, complete set and larger sizes in galleries.
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Fox Sparrow
from yardbirds

Dark-eyed Junco
from yardbirds

Chipping Sparrow
from yardbirds

Purple Finch (female)
from yardbirds

Purple Finch
from yardbirds

Purple Finch
from yardbirds

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
(1st of year)
from yardbirds

White-throated Sparrow
from yardbirds

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
from yardbirds

Leaving Lewis Bridge
Start 2 way traffic north
2019-04-06 RMBS

Southbound 367 flooded
2 way traffic north lanes
2019-04-06 RMBS

Southbound 367 flooded
2 way traffic north lanes
2019-04-06 RMBS

Riverlands Way closed
just pasted Center
2019-04-06 RMBS

Ellis Island Parking Lot
Flooded
2019-04-06 RMBS

Flood closes road
2019-04-06 RMBS

End of Red School Road
2019-04-06 RMBS

Southbound 367
underwater
2019-04-06 RMBS

Road to Ellis Island parking lot Upper Ellis Bay
2019-04-09 RMBS

Road to Ellis Island parking lot Upper Ellis Bay
2019-04-09 RMBS

Cinnamon Teal
2019-04-10
Creve Couer Marsh

American Golden Plover
2019-04-10 Creve Couer Marsh

Greater Yellowlegs
2019-04-10 Creve Couer Bottoms

Road to Ellis Island parking
2019-04-09 RMBS

Road to Ellis Island parking
2019-04-09 RMBS

Horned Grebe
2019-04-09 RMBS

Horned Grebe
2019-04-09 RMBS

Horned Grebe
2019-04-09 RMBS

Spillway
2019-04-09 RMBS

Ruddy Duck (female)
2019-04-09 RMBS

Turtles in Ellis Bay
2019-04-09 RMBS

Turtles in Ellis Bay
2019-04-09 RMBS

Brown Thrasher
2019-04-09 RMBS

Brown Thrasher
2019-04-09 RMBS

Back of Heron Pond
2019-04-09 RMBS

Pied-billed Grebe and American Coot
2019-04-09 RMBS

4/26 Darst Bottoms

Darst Bottoms - St. Charles County
Two rare birds for this side of Missouri, a Harris's Sparrow and Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and a couple less common birds were discovered in Darst Bottoms so I spent some time there.

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Harris's Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Loggerhead Shrike

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
(female & male)

Horned Lark

Savannah Sparrow

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4/15 Western Tanager

Western Tanager - St. Louis County
A rare Western Tanager showed up at a birders house. Needless to say, many went to see it.
It is No. 349 on my list of Bird Species Photographed in Missouri.

A few of the birds seen, complete set and larger sizes in gallery.
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01/11 Black-tailed Gull

Black-tailed Gull at Carlyle Lake just in front of the dam.

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12/04 Anna's Hummingbird

A lady in Springfield, Mo was gazing out her front window when she spotted a hummingbird looking over her artificial flowers on the porch. She hung out a feeder and was rewarded with a rare Missouri visitor, an Anna's Hummingbird. Word got out and many birders, including us, got to see it. It is No. 343 on my list of Bird Species Photographed in Missouri.
A few of the birds seen, complete set and larger sizes in gallery.
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Video of Anna's Hummingbird up in top of tree.


Photos from gallery