Date: 12/1/25 9:19 am From: greg hartel via groups.io <gregjhartel...> Subject: Re: [NEBirds] Not Nebraska - Loess HIlls NWR, NW Missouri
One and the migration changes. Iwonder what will happen this week?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM Matt Shurtliff via groups.io <mmscornhusker=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> OK this isn't Nebraska but it's just across the river from Rulo and a lot
> of Nebraskans bird there. I've been the last two Saturdays and have been
> watching checklists for the last month -- I've had a couple of friends who
> wanted to "see swans" and I wanted to make sure I could give them a show.
>
> Swan migration is on right now. Checklists say 3 three weeks ago, 130 two
> weeks ago, 400 (mine) one week ago, and 500 (also mine) on Saturday. A few
> Tundras in there. This number will grow to at least 2K in my experience.
>
> Snow/Ross Goose migration is on, from literally zero white geese a week
> ago to 20K-ish on Saturday. Ducks are also on, a week ago it was
> Mallard-Pintail-Ring Necked-Shoveler. This week add in Redhead, Scaup,
> Bufflehead, Gadwall, Wigeon, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser,
> Green-Winged Teal, and some late Blue-Winged Teal.
>
> One small group of Sandhill Cranes. No white ones :)
>
> Eagles just starting to accumulate, if you've never been there they'll go
> well over 200 during December-January.
>
> Last week I saw a very large mixed blackbird accumulation, I had it at 50K
> on my checklist - multiple migrating flocks were converging at sunset.
> Huge but nothing compared to the massive one I caught once at Cheyenne
> Bottoms in Kansas that was in the millions.
>
> 46 species checklist on Saturday 11/22, pretty good for a mid to late
> November, and the only wintering songbirds seen were Fox Sparrow and Tree
> Sparrow. So we left a few easy ones on the table. I'm sure they were
> there; we only checked the woodland areas from the road and didn't spend
> much time doing it.
>
> Ebird checklists:
>
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S285632309 - Nov 22
>
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S284649341 - Nov 15
>
> --
> Matt Shurtliff
> Sarpy County
> <mmscornhusker...>
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