Monday, August 2, 2010

July

 

July was a good month for birds.  Traveling through Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota, we saw Trumpeter Swans, Wood Ducks, Brown Creepers, Golden Crowned Kinglets, Golden Winged Warblers, and a Bobolink.  Good variety.  Here is the whole list:

 

Canada Goose

Trumpeter Swan

Wood Duck

Mallard

Common Goldeneye

Common Merganser

Common Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Western Grebe

American White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Broad-winged Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

American Kestrel

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper

Ring-billed Gull

Black Tern

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Common Nighthawk

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-headed Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Western Wood-Pewee

Eastern Phoebe

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

Black-billed Magpie

American Crow

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Black-capped Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Rock Wren

House Wren

Marsh Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Eastern Bluebird

Mountain Bluebird

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Golden-winged Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Common Yellowthroat

Spotted Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Black-headed Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Bullock's Oriole

House Finch

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

 

And to start off August, on Sunday, we got a lifer.  A White Winged Scoter on Bemidji Lake!  Now we have all three North American Scoters.  Lucky us!

 

 

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