Date: 10/20/24 8:35 am
From: Vic Fondy via groups.io <treasurecreek...>
Subject: [sd-birds] NHBC Field trip to Keyhole Dam
Members of the Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) met in Sundance Saturday
10/19 and birded old Sundance Road and Keyhole Dam.  Good weather with
sunny skies and temperatures from 38 to 58 along with some Wyoming
wind.  Eagle sightings started off the day with several Bald and Golden
eagles.  The trip centered around finding migrating Sandhill Cranes
which were not seen until late in the afternoon when numerous flocks and
100's of Cranes started arriving on the North side of Keyhole Dam along
US 14.  Sightings of interest include many Common Loons, one Red-necked
Grebe, Western Grebes plus small numbers of songbirds including
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Orange and Yellow-rumped Warbler, and lots of
Robins and White-crowned Sparrows. Shorebird sightings were Killdeer and
Greater Yellowlegs.

Trip sightings were Common Loon, Western and Red-necked Grebe, American
White Pelican, DC Cormorant, Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall,  Northern
Shoveler, Ruddy Duck, Bald and Golden Eagle, American Kestrel, Wild
Turkey, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Great Yellowlegs, Ring-billed Gull,
Rock Dove, Northern Flicker, Horned Lark, Blue Jay, Black-billed Magpie,
American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, White-breasted and Red-breasted
Nuthatch, American Robin, Mountain Bluebird, Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
European Starling, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped Warbler, Western
Meadowlark, Junco, and White-crowned Sparrow.

Vic Fondy-NHBC 605.269.2553


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