Date: 3/19/26 6:56 pm From: Jane Frazier <janefraz2828...> Subject: MS birds MO note
Shirley Seabaugh and I had a walk in a park in Oxford Missisdippi Sunday with the highlight being an eastern towhee spotted by Shirley. Chipping Sparrows abounded. A short trip to the big Sardis Lake yielded ospreys, Forster's terns, white pelicans, bonapartes gulls, red breasted mergansers, a close look at pine warbler and a close look at a brown headed nuthatch. If you're in the bootheel, you are about three hours away. Oxford had been very hard hit with an ice storm while we had our snow a month ago. Trees were still down everywhere with many with lost limbs or now stumps. But wisteria was beginning to bloom and others. A note though, camping may be closed for now at Sardis due to the storm. My observation of Binder Lake, Cole County, MO after many trips is that this winter the GoldenEye were faithful. On numerous occasions several were there, more times than I can recall from any other year. That is truly a spectacular duck.
Happy Spring Birding, Jane Frazier Jefferson City
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