http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/ sd-birds Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:15:51 GMT cbstafford http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5902 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5902 The violet-green swallows have been feeding young in birdhouse since Tuesday, the babies have gotten big enough to hear since then. The clamor isn't very loud Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:49:19 GMT Ricky D. Olson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5901 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5901 Yesterday, I birded in Sully County again.( too many people here), new shorebirds for this migration: Long-billed Dowitcher, White-rumped and Stilt Sandpipers. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:23:13 GMT Nancy Drilling http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5900 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5900 Calling all photography buffs! It would be great to have at least one photo from each Breeding Bird atlas block, as a photographic record of the block during Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:19:39 GMT Nancy Drilling http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5899 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5899 Yesterday (Friday) while taking a break from atlasing, I saw a pair of pine siskins at the campground of Llewellyn Johns SRA in Shadehill. They were feeding a Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:00 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5898 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5898 SD Birders, In a birding trip yesterday with 9-year old Emanuel and his father Chris, from NY, we saw 82 species. We traveled in McCook, Miner, Hanson, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:38:14 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5897 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5897 Hi, I spent this morning at the Appley/VonHagel Wetlands with "Herk" VonHagel (whose great-uncle was one of the landowners of this peninsula) and a reported Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:59 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5896 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5896 Make that "...30 years...." Doug Chapman Sioux Falls, SD ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:03:02 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5895 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5895 I just received a call from Bob Brown, who has ben a volunteer member of the Akron IA Park dept. for over 0 years and knows the story (and stories) of Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:22:08 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5894 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5894 Hi, After Todd Jensen posted that habitat destruction was going on at the Prothonotary Warbler nesting sight on SD Hwy. 48 on the IA border, I spent most of Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:23:41 GMT cbstafford http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5893 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5893 We hiked along Spearfish Creek from the lower parking area to Roughlock Falls on Sunday afternoon, gorgeous day! There were wildflowers everywhere, many Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:08:12 GMT Bill Bossman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5892 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5892 I went to Gavins Point Nature Trail west of Yankton tonight to see if I could hear the Chuck-will's-widows and Whip-poor-wills reported earlier. Standing in Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:38:51 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5891 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5891 Jim Dunn just called me about 2 hours ago to tell me he an dhis brother found the Prothonotarys--incl. the female. She was very nervous and upset. He did not Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:55:08 GMT Todd Jensen http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5890 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5890 Saturday 27 june 09 I went down to look for the prothonatory warbler and anything else that maybe there. I birded for 4 hours down there. I discovered that Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:09:44 GMT Jensen, Kent http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5889 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5889 Kurt Foreman (USFWS biologist here in Brookings) told me that he had seen a bufflehead brood last week in Brown County. He forwarded me photos of the brood Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:59:52 GMT laura_hubers@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5888 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/5888 I will be teaching a Landscaping for Wildlife class at the Becoming an Outdoorswoman workshop in September. Does anyone know of any interesting/well