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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Lade" data-source="post: 1442458" data-attributes="member: 2676">March 28, 2009I did the "oxbows vehicular tour" south of Saint Joseph this morning. The sky was overcast and there was continual freezing rain/snow in the 30 degree F. temperature weather. The birding was fairly decent though!I observed eighteen species of waterfowl in the various oxbow lakes, Contrary, Muskrat, Mud and Horseshoe: Greater White-fronted Goose (30 of these plus one Snow Goose on Muskrat Lake), Canada Goose, Wood Duck, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, CINNAMON TEAL (at its regular spot off of Nelson Road), Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser and Ruddy Duck.Found Ring-necked Pheasant, Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue Heron, American Kestrel and American Coot.Shorebirds included Killdeer, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, FOY Baird's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper,  Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe and a single Wilson's Phalarope (seen the last several days on the west end of Horseshoe Lake).Continuing this morning's list (taxonomically): Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Horned Lark, Carolina Wren, American Robin, European Starling, American Pipit (these seemed to be about everywhere in the harvested fields), Vesper Sparrow, many Savannah Sparrows, Harris's Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird, [Spp meadowlark], Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, House Finch, American Goldfinch and House Sparrow.Fifty-three (53) species, plus the meadowlarks.</blockquote>

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