Today Linda and I took advantage of free schedules and beautiful weather to get out and go birding. We began at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area where we located a nice diversity of waterfowl and grassland birds. The best find was a flock of approximately 40 Lapland Longspurs that were hanging around a flooded farm field on Morral-Kirkpatrick Road. They were in various stages of change into their breeding plumage. 
 
From there we headed south to the Delaware Wildlife Area to see if we could find the Long-tailed Duck initially discovered Thursday. We did not  find it. I also noted the significant drop in the number of waterfowl present. Thursday there were an estimated 1,000 waterfowl. Today the numbers were down substantially, but at least there was some variety to keep things interesting
The species observed  were:
 
Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
Pied-billed Grebe (3)
Horned Grebe (3)
Turkey Vulture (19)
Canada Goose (300+)
Mute Swan (3)
Trumpeter Swan (2)
Tundra Swan (98)
Gadwall (31)
American Wigeon (200+)
American Black Duck (23)
Mallard (200+)
Blue-winged Teal (7)
Northern Shoveler (12)
Northern Pintail (4)
Green-winged Teal (8)
Redhead (17)
Ring-necked Duck (127)
Lesser Scaup (100+)
Bufflehead  (13)
Common Goldeneye (3)
Hooded Merganser (9)
Red-breasted Merganser (4)
Bald Eagle (3)
Northern Harrier (7)
Red-tailed Hawk (11)
Killdeer (23)
Rock Pigeon (25)
Mourning Dove (31)
Red-headed Woodpecker (1)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (3)
Downy Woodpecker (3)
Northern Flicker (5)
Blue Jay (19)
American Crow (30)
Horned Lark (100+)
Tree Swallow (5)
Eastern Bluebird (4)
American Robin (18)
European Starling  (400)
American Tree Sparrow (7)
Song Sparrow (29)
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Lapland Longspur (40)
Northern Cardinal (14)
Red-winged Blackbird (75)
Eastern Meadowlark (20)
Rusty Blackbird (12)
Common Grackle (80+)
Brown-headed Cowbird (13)
House Finch (2)
American Goldfinch (16)
House Sparrow (33)
 
Delaware Wildlife Area
 Pied-billed Grebe (1)
 Horned Grebe (1)
Turkey Vulture (27)
Canada Goose (200+)
Gadwall (18)
American Wigeon (127)
American Black Duck (23)
Mallard (76)
Blue-winged Teal (15)
Northern Shoveler (26)
Northern Pintail (13)
Green-winged Teal (8)
Redhead (1)
Ring-necked Duck (300+)
Lesser Scaup (100+)
Bufflehead (9)
Hooded Merganser (6)
Red-tailed Hawk (10)
American Kestrel (1)
American Coot (4)
Killdeer (5)
Ring-billed Gull (200+)
Herring Gull (1)
Rock Pigeon (12)
Mourning Dove (11)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (3)
Downy Woodpecker (6)
Northern Flicker (2)
Blue Jay (12)
American Crow (27)
Tree Swallow (31)
Carolina Chickadee (6)
Eastern Bluebird (5)
American Robin (14)
European Starling (150+)
Song Sparrow (16)
Swamp Sparrow (4)
Northern Cardinal (12)
Red-winged Blackbird (42)
Common Grackle (34)
Brown-headed Cowbird (7)
American Goldfinch (22)
House Sparrow (5)
 
Charlie Bombaci
 

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