Drove through the cemetery after work. Lots of previous highlights had moved
on, or at least eluded my detection. No bluebirds, woodpeckers, or warblers.
Only 4 Juncos, 2 pink-sided, 1 gray-headed. The fourth was with the
gray-headed, but I didn’t get a good enough look to catch its form. The
highlight of the cemetery was a flock? of two Cedar Waxwings.
Leaving the cemetery I drove around Lake 6. Not much happening there. Highlight
was the lone Snowy Egret between the spillway and the roadway.
Mae Simmons was blocked off for a cross country race or something, so I did
liquor store and Bowles Lake roads. Heading out 19th, 9 Sandhill Cranes flew
over. The liquor store road highlight was a large loose flock of Lark Buntings
(50-75). 6-10 Horned Larks and bunches of Meadow Larks rounded out the “larks.”
Bowles Lake Road was full of raptors. 5-7 Redtails, including 1 dark morph,
probably a Harlan’s. The best bird though, was a dark morph Ferruginous Hawk.
It was east of the road closer to East 50th along with another Ferruginous and
some of the Redtails. The dark bird was perched on the ground and cooperative
for long looks. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my real camera and my phone camera
shot just shows a dark blob in the dirt. Huge yellow gape and legs darkly
feathered to the toes. Second best birds on that stretch were a pair of Prairie
Falcons. A few more Lark Buntings were present.
Mourning Dove were plentiful outside the loop. Robins were plentiful at the
cemetery.
I missed something with a pale yellow underside on Liquor Store Road.
Disappeared from the back side of the tree it was in the back side of.
FYI, they’re doing some utility work near the corners in the road, so traffic
was up and the road was pretty powdery.
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