Date: 10/6/24 6:55 pm
From: Vic Fondy via groups.io <treasurecreek...>
Subject: [sd-birds] Whitewood to Orman
We birded  Fort Meade recreation area, Bear Butte Lake area, Nisland
slough, Belle Fourche Reservoir and back to Whitewood via Crooked Oaks
road and St. Onge.  Bear Butte area lakes were about as birdless as we
had seen this year with only a few Western Grebes and no ducks at Bear
Butte lake..  We did have a few shorebirds including Killdeer,
Long-billed Dowitcher, and Least Sandpipers.  Belle Fourche Reservoir is
quite low. Sightings there included Bald Eagle, American White Pelican,
DC Cormorants, Least Sandpipers, and Ring-billed Gulls.  Our bird of the
day was a Brown Creeper at Fort Meade recreation area. Our surprise of
the day was a Great-horned Owl sitting quietly by the shore of a small
lake on North Sale Barn Road near St. Onge.  Raptor sightings were five
Red-tailed Hawks and the Bald Eagle.  Sparrow sightings were Vesper,
Lark, White-crowned and a few Juncos.

The Western Tanagers have left our feeders 1.5 miles south of Whitewood
and our last sighting was 9/25.  The first Dark-eyed Junco arrived on
10/4 and we still have 5 Spotted Towhees feeding daily.

Vic/Donna Fondy 605.269.2553


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