http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/ Montana's Outdoor Birding Group Sat, 18 May 2013 18:29:43 GMT Mike Lesnik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16496 MOB, Thanks to information about last years controlled burn on the east side of Timber Creek Road (FR 801 on DeLorme map) from Butch in Birney, I just posted Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:35 GMT Forrest Rowland http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16495 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16495 MOB,   In our small, very-much-IN-town, backyard this morning we've had singing Warbling Vireos and a Swainson's Thrush. Cassin's Finch have been hanging Sat, 18 May 2013 12:07:27 GMT Mike Lesnik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16494 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16494 MOB, A few more birds were added at the campground and along the Tongue River Road downstream to Birney: Common Merganser, Wood Duck (a pair perched in Sat, 18 May 2013 03:51:13 GMT Dan Casey http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16493 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16493 Would the person who posted the Whimbrel photo from Somers please post details on the location? Dan CaseySomers Sat, 18 May 2013 03:13:38 GMT steel_rsd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16492 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16492 MOB, Not much new to report but some good rain. I did see my own FOY Common Yellowthroat and Orange-crowned Warbler at Castle Mountain Marsh along with a Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:49 GMT Gary Swant http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16491 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16491 Tom, I sent you an email by my phone. I don't always trust that thing. I would be glad to take you out. Call me at 691-0368 and we will work on a date. Gary Sat, 18 May 2013 00:37:38 GMT Gary Swant http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16490 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16490 I was conducting the annual Raptor Survey for the Upper Clark Fork Valley and found a light adult Broad-winged Hawk on Lake Hill Road, just south of Deer Sat, 18 May 2013 00:33:07 GMT Tom Forwood Jr. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16489 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16489 Hello MOB, This morning I had to travel to Bannack for the day but early in the AM on the way out of the park I heard the distinctive buzzy warble of at Fri, 17 May 2013 23:03:08 GMT Michael Schwitters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16488 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16488 MOB, A visitor and I headed to Freezout and soon met up with A. Eckert. We had a very good birding morning. First of Year were four Red Knots and a Dunlin in Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:47 GMT carolyn.hopper76 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16487 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16487 This morning we had a fleeting visit from what is now an annual visitor - a lazuli bunting. He was at our feeder in Bridger Creek Subd. in Bozeman for about a Fri, 17 May 2013 22:04:13 GMT Gary Swant http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16486 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16486 There were 6,000 individuals and 83 species, compared to 7,000 individuals, and 69 species last week. This is the highest species count this spring. Most Fri, 17 May 2013 19:24:00 GMT Mike Lesnik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16484 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16484 MOB, Just started up the East Fork Hanging Woman Creek Road and had to come back to the cell hot spot across the street from the Birney Post Office to enter Fri, 17 May 2013 18:56:41 GMT fatponies@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16483 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16483 As I've posted recently, I am watching and photographing a pair of nesting Sandhill Cranes. I had been using my Canon 300L prime lens with converter but it Fri, 17 May 2013 18:12:44 GMT Jeff Marks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16482 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16482 Katie, Those eye combs are fleshy and most likely fill with blood. Seeing it go from red to yellow suggests the combs were draining of blood because they Fri, 17 May 2013 17:33:46 GMT Katie LaSalle-Lowery http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16481 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/16481 Dad and I just witnessed something new to us. We are at Lake Butte Overlook in Yellowstone and watched the eyebrows of a displaying dusky grouse change over