I took a quick look at the Deer Creek Reservoir again this afternoon. The water lever dropped about 8 feet in the past few days, and the was a big influx of various fish-eating birds.  While I probably overlooked quite a bit (like possibly some R-t Loons etc.), here are some of the birds I did see there today :

~250 Lesser Scaups
~40 Hooded Mergansers
~350 Common Loons
~20 Pied-billed Grebes
~10 Horned Grebes
1 RED-NECKED GREBE
1 Am. WHITE PELICAN
~400 Double-cr Cormorants
~40 Gr. Blue Herons
~300 Am. Coots
~50 Killdeers
~1200 Bonaparte's Gulls
~700 Ring-billed Gulls
~10 Herring Gulls

There are still loads of sparrows in the fields, and Am. Tree Sparrows have finally arrived in numbers. The sunflower fields still hold massive numbers of Am. Goldfinches.

Bob Royse



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