Larry Lade
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This is a list of the birds I saw/heard today while birding the oxbow lakes region just south of St. Joseph, Missouri. (They were just written down more or less in the order in which I saw them.)
Barn Swallow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Mourning Dove
Great Blue Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
European Starling
Pied-billed Grebe
Canada Goose
Common Grackle
Horned Lark
American Goldfinch
Killdeer
Western Meadowlark
Northern Bobwhite
American Robin
Dickcissel
Red-tailed Hawk
House Sparrow
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER (my first of the year, they are kind of rare up in our neck of the woods)
Eastern Meadowlark
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Kingbird
Franklin's Gull
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Great Crested Flycatcher
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Western Kingbird
Purple Martin
Downy Woodpecker
Grasshopper Sparrow
Black-capped Chickadee
House Wren
Chimney Swift
Barn Swallow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Mourning Dove
Great Blue Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
European Starling
Pied-billed Grebe
Canada Goose
Common Grackle
Horned Lark
American Goldfinch
Killdeer
Western Meadowlark
Northern Bobwhite
American Robin
Dickcissel
Red-tailed Hawk
House Sparrow
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER (my first of the year, they are kind of rare up in our neck of the woods)
Eastern Meadowlark
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Kingbird
Franklin's Gull
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Great Crested Flycatcher
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Western Kingbird
Purple Martin
Downy Woodpecker
Grasshopper Sparrow
Black-capped Chickadee
House Wren
Chimney Swift