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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Lade" data-source="post: 1520094" data-attributes="member: 2676">I went out for a little birding this morning around the oxbow lakes region south of Saint Joseph, Missouri. On and Off rain this morning, mostly ON!The "bird of the day" was a calling LEAST BITTERN in the extensive cattails on the west end of Lake Contrary. I also observed a GREEN HERON flying over the cattails, carrying food for young.On Horseshoe Lake there are some PIED-BILLED GREBES still sitting on viewable nests and other PBGRs who have already hatched their young and can be seen in the area.A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was doing his "Gene Kelly" impersonation of "Singing in the Rain" atop a wooden, roadside fence post at Muskrat Lake. When I saw him it was raining quite heavily, but that did not seem to dampen his enthusiasm in the least!A EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was calling around Contrary Creek and another was seen at the Saint Joseph Stockyards. Also at the stockyards were 6 or 7 male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES, picking around in the parking lot.A couple of YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO were vocalizing in lakeside trees.The only shorebirds were KILLDEER.Among the 45 species I recorded were: ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, EASTERN and WESTERN KINGBIRDS, only one meadowlark [Spp], CHIPPING and LARK SPARROWS.</blockquote>