Big Day
We left the work center at 5 am and drove to the Blackfoot River around Ovando, Monana. In nine hours we found sixty-seven species.
American Coot
American Redstart
American Robin
Barn Swallow
Barrow's Goldeneye
Belted Kingfisher
Black-billed Magpie
Black-headed Grosbeak
Black Tern
Brewer's Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bufflehead
Bullock's Oriole
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cassin's Vireo
Chipping Sparrow
Cinnamon Teal
Clay-colored Sparrow
Cliff Swallow
Common Merganser
Common Raven
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper's Hawk
Dusky Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Evening Grosbeak
Gadwall
Hammond's Flycatcher
House Wren
Least Flycatcher
Lesser Scaup
Lincoln's Sparrow
Long-billed Curlew
Mallard (pronounced m'LARD)
Marsh Wren
Mountain Bluebird
Merlin
Northern Flicker
Northern Goshawk (a beefy accip)
Northern Harrier (the gray ghost with the white butt)
Northern Waterthrush
Osprey
Pileated Woodpecker
Prairie Falcon
Red-Naped Sapsucker
Red-tailed Hawk
Ruffed Grouse
Red-necked Grebe
Ring-necked Duck
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Duck
Sandhill Crane
Savannah Sparrow
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Spotted Sandpiper
Tree Swallow
Trumpeter Swan
Turkey Vulture
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Vesper Sparrow
Violet-green Swallow
Western Bluebird
Western Grebe
White-crowned Sparrow