A busy day near Lake Red Rock. My first Eastern Phoebe of the year. Back in the day, I associated the first phoebe of the year with my wedding anniversary - in the last couple of days of March. How things have changed. If I live to be 150, they may spend the winter here.
Also had big groups of Common Grackles flying over, Brown-headed Cowbirds in the ag fields, and more Snow and Greater White-fronted Geese than I typically see near my house on the south side of Red Rock. Fun day, Russ Benedict, Pella/Knoxville.
Russ Benedict
Professor of Biology
Director of Prairies For Agriculture Project
Department of Biology, Central College
812 University Street | Campus Box 09 | Pella, Iowa 50219
Office: 641-628-5173
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Subject: [ia-bird] Re: American Black Duck at the North Onion Creek CREP along hwy 17 two miles North of Hwy 30 Boone Co.
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[cid:ii_19ccea0709dd2240e951]Possible pair of Black Ducks, 200 yards from the road.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2026, 12:42 Clayton Will <willcfish...><mailto:<willcfish...>> wrote:
There is an American Black Duck at the North Onion Creek CREP along hwy 17 two miles North of Hwy 30. Boone Co.
