It was going to be a pretty slow day.  Killdeer Plains was okay, but
slow...it took a while to get to 1000 geese.:-D

Then as the sun began to set, we headed towards the house by way of Herr
Rd/SR203/Big Island Wildlife Area....and ran into an amount of geese that
would rival the locust storm in the  Bible....what I thought was smoke were
geese...I guessed 2k...but it could have easily been twice that.
Tundra Swans were everywhere and the surprise for the day were 3 Snow
Geese...easily seen with another mess of flying Canada Geese.

Lists below.

God Bless and Happy Birding :-D

Steve, Enola, and Amanda Jones.

Observer: Steven Jones
2014-03-09 15:28
Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
Protocol: Traveling
15 Miles
117 Minutes
Observers: 3
All birds reported? Yes
    1000    Canada Goose
    50    Mallard
    2    Turkey Vulture
    2    Bald Eagle
    5    Red-tailed Hawk
    1    Ring-billed Gull
    4    Mourning Dove
    1    Red-headed Woodpecker
    2    Downy Woodpecker
    3    American Kestrel
    1    Blue Jay
    2    American Crow
    2    Horned Lark
    30    American Robin
    1    Northern Mockingbird
    30    European Starling
    10    American Tree Sparrow
    1    Song Sparrow
    10    Dark-eyed Junco
    2    Northern Cardinal
    60    Red-winged Blackbird
    5    Brown-headed Cowbird

2014-03-09 18:56
Big Island Wildlife Area--Herr Rd.
Protocol: Traveling
5 Miles
30 Minutes
Observers: 3
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: this was the field between Herr rd and SR203, and pond across
from tower.

    3    Snow Goose
    2000    Canada Goose
    4    Trumpeter Swan
    140    Tundra Swan    in field behind tower, seen from 203 in groops of
20-40 plus another 30 on Herr Rd. and another 30 in contaiment pond across
from tower.
    10    American Wigeon
    500    Mallard
    100    Northern Pintail
    20    Green-winged Teal
    300    Redhead
    20    Lesser Scaup
    1    Red-tailed Hawk
    20    American Coot
    2    Killdeer
    200    Ring-billed Gull
    12    Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
    1    Mourning Dove
    1    Short-eared Owl
    3    American Kestrel
    4    American Crow
    2    Horned Lark
    20    European Starling
    2    Swamp Sparrow
    2    Northern Cardinal
    10    Red-winged Blackbird
    2    Eastern Meadowlark

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