June 2006 Field Journal

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6.3 - 6.11 Minnesota and North Dakota
Steve Gerstle and I spent an enjoyable 8 days in the midwest and had the following birds:

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Gray Partridge
Ruffed Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Yellow Rail
American Coot
Sandhill Crane (heard only)
Killdeer
American Avocet
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock (heard only)
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Yellow-throated Vireo (heard only)
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Sprague's Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Golden-winged Warbler (heard only)
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Dickcissel
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

6.18 Father's Day Birds
Lots of activity this morning of expected species. Just as I was about to leave a SOOTY SHEARWATER flew by, the first of 20 or so that came by. I was hoping for a bigger pulse but it vaporized just as quickly as it materialized. Nice to see good numbers of COMMON MURRES at the Cliff House with 3+ PIGEON GUILLEMOTS and a PELAGIC CORMORANT rounding out the mentionables. An OSPREY was the only mentionable from the mesa at Lincoln Park while the East Wash offered only sublime views.

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