Before I left this morning for Bluff Woods CA and the oxbows south of St.Joseph I observed a HERMIT THRUSH in our backyard here in St.Joseph. (Another first of the year bird).  Also had one WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in our yard.

Some of the Bluff Woods birds:
    Vesper Sparrow - 1 (four more around Lake Contrary)
    Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
    Turkey Vulture - 1 
    Wild Turkey  (heard)
    Brown-headed Cowbird
    Lark Sparrow - 2
    Chipping Sparrow - 1
    
Some Horseshoe Lake birds:
    American White Pelican - 90
    Mallard - 1
    Blue-winged Teal - 20
    Greater Yellowlegs - 50
    Lesser Yellowlegs - 40
    Tree Swallow - 10
    Green-winged Teal - 10
    Northern Shoveler - 30
    Killdeer - 10
    American Golden Plover -  60
    Pectoral Sandpiper - 100
    Baird's Sandpiper - 100
    Double-crested Cormorant - 7
    Barn Swallow - 2
    Semipalmated Sandpiper - 5
    Wilson's Snipe - 3
    Least Sandpiper - 1
    Semipalmated Plover - 1
    Ring-billed Gull - 1
    Wilson's Phalarope - 1
    
Some Muskrat Lake birds:
    Northern Harrier - 1
    Western Meadowlark - 3
    Loggerhead Shrike - 1

Some Lake Contrary birds:
    Northern Mockingbird - 1 (and it was singing!)
    Purple Martin - 5
    Snow Goose - 5

Larry Lade
Saint Joseph, MO
Buchanan Co.


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