Forwarding for James Hickner:


Monday, June 18, I birded Riverlands for the first
> time since May 3rd. My wife was with me at that
> time. We stopped there and then went to Edward Jones
> Confluence State Park before heading north and west
> for Grafton, Illinois. After leaving Grafton and
> going through storm, we went back to Riverlands
> before we went home. I had 33 species at Riverlands,
> not bad considering so few water birds. However the
> water in Ellis Bay is coming down. I got two new
> year birds - OSPREY in Ellis Bay across from Teal
> Pond, probably the same bird you and your team saw
> on the Big Day on June 1st, and Eurasian Collared
> Dove on Old Red School Rd about half way between
> Wise Rd and Rt 67, near a farmhouse and a barn. Here
> is a result at Riverlands:
> Canada Goose
> Common Grackle
> Tree Swallow
> Barn Swallow
> Osprey - 1
> American White Pelican
> Northern Rough-winged Swallow
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Wood Duck - with some youngs in Heron Pond
> Hooded Merganser - 2 female
> Great Blue Heron
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Ring-billed Gull
> Caspian Tern - 2 in Ellis Bay
> Cliff Swallow
> Eastern Meadowlark - at least 20
> Crow sp. - 4 - looked like Fish to me because of
> smaller bills and relatively short legs but I cannot
> be certain without hearing their call.
> Great Egret
> Dickcissel - 2
> Northern Mockingbird - 1
> European Starling
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
> Mallard - a few
> Killdeer
> Eurasian Tree Sparrow
> Snowy Egret - 2
> American Robin
> Northern Bobwhite - 1 female and 2 male
> American Goldfinch
> Mourning Dove - 2
> Indigo Bunting - at least 2
> Eastern Kingbird - 1
> Northern Flicker - 1
> Edward Jones Confluence State Park:
> Great Egret - about 50
> Great Blue Heron ~ 10
> Little Blue Heron - 30-40
> Snowy Egret - 20-30
> Bank Swallow - at the confluence
> Tree Swallow
> Dickcissel - 2
> Eastern Kingbird - 1
> plus some common birds including robins, grackles,
> cowbirds, starlings, red-winged blackirds, and
> Eurasian Tree Sparrows.
> I did not see any Cattle Egret as some were
> previously reported seen there.
>
> Good birding,
> Jim Hickner
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Joshua Uffman
MO Rare Bird Alert Compiler
St. Louis County, MO
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314.540.7382

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