http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/ sd-birds Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:20:57 GMT brdfsd@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4695 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4695 Ed Rodriquez at Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge contacted me this morning about the gull shot Sunday at Atkins Slough. It is of course illegal and Atkins Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:09:44 GMT Vic/Donna Fondy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4694 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4694 The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a field trip out of Sundance, Wyoming to Keyhole Dam on Saturday October, 11, 2008. Interested participants Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:38:38 GMT brdfsd@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4693 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4693 Bill and I walked a bit at Atkins Slough looking for Le Conte Sparrows. No sparrows, it was pretty breezy. Then drove the road checking the wetlands. Sora, Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:25:46 GMT Todd Jensen http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4692 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4692 Birded big bend dam this afternoon for an hour. Nothing really unusual. There was however, a single one of both American golden and black-bellied plovers on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:42:51 GMT Jean http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4691 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4691 I was not as lucky as Caroline, only had 2 Red-tailed Hawks over Warren Peak in the Hills. Did have a flock of about 15 White crown sparrows, 1 clay-colored Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:34:29 GMT cbstafford http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4690 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4690 Michael Melius was dead on about hawks moving today. I spent a little more than a half hour on Dinosaur Hill between 2 and 3 pm scanning overhead. I pulled Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:53:47 GMT Mark Schmidtbauer http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4689 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4689 Birders, Saturday morning the Bird Club had a field trip to look for fall Migrants. The first place we went to was a wetland a couple of miles southeast of Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:43:29 GMT m. melius http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4688 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4688 With low clouds and a front coming through, today (Oct. 5) and tomorrow look promising for finding hawks, and I would urge birders around the Hills to be Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:25:35 GMT m. melius http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4687 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4687 Today may have been the day the Turkey Vultures left Rapid City. I was southeast of town, along Old Folsom Road, when a long line of them flew over me at about Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:53:06 GMT Jean http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4686 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4686 I took Jen out to try and find the Sabine's gull we saw last week at Keyhole Res.. We did not find the Juv. Sabine's but an Adult Sabine's Gull which was a Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:10:17 GMT Ricky D. Olson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4685 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4685 I checked near Miranda today for the Caracara. Just a cow carcass at the spot. Many Red-tailed Hawks and Northern Harriers in the area. Sharing is half the fun Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:37:13 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4684 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4684 Today Caity Reiland-Smith and I went out to find the sparrows again, this time with a new friend from Augustana. Le Conte's found again at Atkins (where we met Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:11 GMT Ricky D. Olson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4683 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4683 The warbler migration has been very bleek in the Ft Pierre area this fall. The only uncommon migrant warbler species to this area I have seen is 2 Nashville Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:14:12 GMT Terry Sohl http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4682 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4682 Hi, Didn't see the Le Conte's at the one spot northeast of Corson today, but this morning on the way in, there were several at the spot just SE of EROS. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:52:47 GMT douglas chapman http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4681 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-birds/message/4681 I took Caity Reiland-Smith to see the Le Conte's Sparrows at Atkins Slough near Tea this afternoon. She and I saw at least 5 of them. It was a life bird for