Date: 4/5/25 3:32 pm From: Michael Zerr via groups.io <zerrmick...> Subject: [sd-birds] field trip
The SFBC outing today on a rare sunny day was great. We did most of the NW
wetland route. 47 Species were seen. We had a new member with us who got
numerous life birds!!! We had the season's first sighting of Yellow-headed
Blackbirds and Turkey Vultures (for most of us).
Mick
SFBC
Species list- Snow Geese
Canada Geese
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shovelers
Green-winged Teal.
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup.
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle (2: on nest and flying)
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk.
American Kestrel
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Baird’s Sandpiper
Bonaparte’s Gull
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
European Starling
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
House Sparrow
