- RBA
* Montana
* Montana RBA
* 09-05-2005
* MTMS0509.05
- Birds Mentioned
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Greater White-fronted Goose
GREAT EGRET
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Black-necked Stilt
Black-bellied Plover
RED KNOT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
SABINE'S GULL
Calliope Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Lewis' Woodpecker
BLUE HEADED VIREO
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
WARBLERS, WARBLER and more WARBLERS
Green-tailed Towhee
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Montana
number: 406-721-9799
to report: Terry Toppins 406-549-6027 or _tertop@aol.com_
(mailto:tertop@aol.com)
coverage: entire state
This is Terry Toppins with my 250th edition of the Montana
Birding Hotline sponsored by Birdwatcher's Country Store
at the corner of Main and Pattee in Missoula recorded late
Monday Sept 5th, 2005.
Today, Sept. 5th, there was a fallout of warblers and sparrows in the
city park in Westby. There were dozens and dozens of CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS, 2 PHILADELPHIA and 1 bright BLUE-HEADED VIREO, 2
CAPE MAY WARBLERS and multiples of the following: MAGNOLIA,
MOURNING, MACGILLIVRAY'S, WILSONS, BLACK-AND-WHITE,
ORANGE-CROWNED, TENNESSEE, OVENBIRD, YELLOW, BLACKPOLL
and YELLOW-RUMPED along with the eastern race of NASHVILLE.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS are still present. If only Westby
wasn't 700 miles from Missoula!
Florence McGuire, a visiting birder from Pennsylvania, found 2 SABINE'S
GULLS on Lower St. Mary's Lake in Glacier National Park today the 5th.
Chuck Carlson from Ft. Peck reported he had a COOPER'S HAWK in his
yard today, so few birds were present. There were 39 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES at the Ft. Peck Sewage Ponds and 80 AMERICAN WHITE
PELICANS below the dam.
Sept 4th Sid Frissell in Emigrant had a GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE on his
brush pile - an irregular visitor to his yard.
While Tamara Enz found 1 GREAT EGRET at Pablo NWR in the Mission
Valley on Aug. 27th, , Denver Holt reported that there were 3 GREAT
EGRETS in the trees at Ninepipe NWR yesterday Sept 4th. Denver also
said that while Pablo NWR still had great numbers of shorebirds on the
23rd of August, it is pretty empty now. The 23rd he had 1 BUFF-BREASTED,
500 BAIRD'S, 600 SEMIPALMATED and 50 WESTERN SANDPIPERS.
Sept 4th, Nate Kohler found a single BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and a
juvenile RED KNOT at the Warm Springs Ponds Complex off of I-90. The
RED KNOT appears to be injured and may remain in the area - you could
call Gary Swant in Deer Lodge at 406-846-2451 if interested. There are at
least 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS working the ponds in the area. Nate also
found a SABINE'S GULL at the Warm Springs Sewage Ponds on the 1st.
When Gary arrived there were both an adult and a juvenile SABINE'S GULL.
August 30th there was a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in the same
area along with 7 BLACK-NECKED STILTS at Deer Lodge.
Bob Rost reported that the Split Pond north of Somers had good shorebirds
Saturday Sept 3rd: 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 2 LONG-BILLED DOWIT-
CHERS, several STILT SANDPIPERS, WESTERN, BAIRD'S and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS along with flocks of sparrows and AMERICAN PIPITS.
Alan Nelson went to Giant Springs State Park near Great Falls Sept 4th and
on an island counted 181 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS and 35
AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. The Park had a CANADA WARBLER,
WILSON'S. YELLOW, and MACGILLIVRAY WARBLERS along with
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT.
Richard Mousel in Great Falls had his first hummingbird of the year - a
female
Calliope on Sept 1st.
August 31st, Chuck and Jean Carlson were at Westby and saw CANADA,
BLACKPOLL, BLACK-AND-WHITE, WILSON'S WARBLERS, YELLOWS,
and 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS along with 1 OVENBIRD and
AMERICAN REDSTARTS.
The 29th and 30th Radd Icenoggle and Sam Koenen were in North Eastern
Montana and saw the following birds at or near the following locations:
Westby: SANDERLING, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, RUBY-THROATED
HUMMINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED and PHILADELPHIA VIREO, TENNESSEE,
MOURNING, CANADA, MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, OVENBIRD. Culbertson
Bridge: CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. Medicine Lake: NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. They also reported finding an EASTERN WOOD
PEEWEE, based on a different song.
Unusual for Helena was a LEWIS' WOODPECKER Aug 22nd thru the 27th
behind Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks headquarters said Hugh Zackman.
Saturday the 29th, John Carlson from Ft. Peck had 40 species in his yard -
highlights were: LINCOLN'S SPARROW, CHESNUT-SIDED, WILSON'S,
MACGILLIVRAY'S, MOURNING, TENNESSEE and YELLOW WARBLERS,
AMERICAN REDSTART, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, and a BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE (the first in over a year and one half). While most birds were
moving through, the BLACK-HEADED and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS
were still hanging around the yard.
The 29th a lady in Glasgow called Chuck Carlson with a CAPE MAY
WARBLER in her yard, which Chuck got pictures of.
The 26th John Carlson took an outing along the Milk River near Glasgow and
found MAGNOLIA, CANADA, BLACK-AND-WHITE and YELLOW WARBLERS
and 2 OVENBIRDS along with a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER.
Laura Swant found a bird on Beck Hill Road north of Deer Lodge and when
Laura and Gary Swant relocated it on August 23rd they realized it was a
juvenile
LONG-TAILED JAEGER, which local residents said had been present for a week
eating grasshoppers on the road. It was gone the next day.
Larry Weeks will lead a half-day field trip to the Smurfit-Stone Plant on
Mullan
Road west of Missoula on Saturday Sept. 10th. Meet at the UofM Fieldhouse
at 800 am or at the main gate of the plant at 830 am.
If you have sightings you would like to share please leave a message or call
Carole or Terry at 549-6027. Thanks and Good Birding to You. HL-250.
- End Transcript
* Montana
* Montana RBA
* 09-05-2005
* MTMS0509.05
- Birds Mentioned
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Greater White-fronted Goose
GREAT EGRET
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Black-necked Stilt
Black-bellied Plover
RED KNOT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
SABINE'S GULL
Calliope Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Lewis' Woodpecker
BLUE HEADED VIREO
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
WARBLERS, WARBLER and more WARBLERS
Green-tailed Towhee
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Montana
number: 406-721-9799
to report: Terry Toppins 406-549-6027 or _tertop@aol.com_
(mailto:tertop@aol.com)
coverage: entire state
This is Terry Toppins with my 250th edition of the Montana
Birding Hotline sponsored by Birdwatcher's Country Store
at the corner of Main and Pattee in Missoula recorded late
Monday Sept 5th, 2005.
Today, Sept. 5th, there was a fallout of warblers and sparrows in the
city park in Westby. There were dozens and dozens of CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS, 2 PHILADELPHIA and 1 bright BLUE-HEADED VIREO, 2
CAPE MAY WARBLERS and multiples of the following: MAGNOLIA,
MOURNING, MACGILLIVRAY'S, WILSONS, BLACK-AND-WHITE,
ORANGE-CROWNED, TENNESSEE, OVENBIRD, YELLOW, BLACKPOLL
and YELLOW-RUMPED along with the eastern race of NASHVILLE.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS are still present. If only Westby
wasn't 700 miles from Missoula!
Florence McGuire, a visiting birder from Pennsylvania, found 2 SABINE'S
GULLS on Lower St. Mary's Lake in Glacier National Park today the 5th.
Chuck Carlson from Ft. Peck reported he had a COOPER'S HAWK in his
yard today, so few birds were present. There were 39 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES at the Ft. Peck Sewage Ponds and 80 AMERICAN WHITE
PELICANS below the dam.
Sept 4th Sid Frissell in Emigrant had a GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE on his
brush pile - an irregular visitor to his yard.
While Tamara Enz found 1 GREAT EGRET at Pablo NWR in the Mission
Valley on Aug. 27th, , Denver Holt reported that there were 3 GREAT
EGRETS in the trees at Ninepipe NWR yesterday Sept 4th. Denver also
said that while Pablo NWR still had great numbers of shorebirds on the
23rd of August, it is pretty empty now. The 23rd he had 1 BUFF-BREASTED,
500 BAIRD'S, 600 SEMIPALMATED and 50 WESTERN SANDPIPERS.
Sept 4th, Nate Kohler found a single BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and a
juvenile RED KNOT at the Warm Springs Ponds Complex off of I-90. The
RED KNOT appears to be injured and may remain in the area - you could
call Gary Swant in Deer Lodge at 406-846-2451 if interested. There are at
least 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS working the ponds in the area. Nate also
found a SABINE'S GULL at the Warm Springs Sewage Ponds on the 1st.
When Gary arrived there were both an adult and a juvenile SABINE'S GULL.
August 30th there was a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in the same
area along with 7 BLACK-NECKED STILTS at Deer Lodge.
Bob Rost reported that the Split Pond north of Somers had good shorebirds
Saturday Sept 3rd: 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 2 LONG-BILLED DOWIT-
CHERS, several STILT SANDPIPERS, WESTERN, BAIRD'S and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS along with flocks of sparrows and AMERICAN PIPITS.
Alan Nelson went to Giant Springs State Park near Great Falls Sept 4th and
on an island counted 181 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS and 35
AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. The Park had a CANADA WARBLER,
WILSON'S. YELLOW, and MACGILLIVRAY WARBLERS along with
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT.
Richard Mousel in Great Falls had his first hummingbird of the year - a
female
Calliope on Sept 1st.
August 31st, Chuck and Jean Carlson were at Westby and saw CANADA,
BLACKPOLL, BLACK-AND-WHITE, WILSON'S WARBLERS, YELLOWS,
and 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS along with 1 OVENBIRD and
AMERICAN REDSTARTS.
The 29th and 30th Radd Icenoggle and Sam Koenen were in North Eastern
Montana and saw the following birds at or near the following locations:
Westby: SANDERLING, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, RUBY-THROATED
HUMMINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED and PHILADELPHIA VIREO, TENNESSEE,
MOURNING, CANADA, MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, OVENBIRD. Culbertson
Bridge: CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. Medicine Lake: NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. They also reported finding an EASTERN WOOD
PEEWEE, based on a different song.
Unusual for Helena was a LEWIS' WOODPECKER Aug 22nd thru the 27th
behind Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks headquarters said Hugh Zackman.
Saturday the 29th, John Carlson from Ft. Peck had 40 species in his yard -
highlights were: LINCOLN'S SPARROW, CHESNUT-SIDED, WILSON'S,
MACGILLIVRAY'S, MOURNING, TENNESSEE and YELLOW WARBLERS,
AMERICAN REDSTART, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, and a BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE (the first in over a year and one half). While most birds were
moving through, the BLACK-HEADED and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS
were still hanging around the yard.
The 29th a lady in Glasgow called Chuck Carlson with a CAPE MAY
WARBLER in her yard, which Chuck got pictures of.
The 26th John Carlson took an outing along the Milk River near Glasgow and
found MAGNOLIA, CANADA, BLACK-AND-WHITE and YELLOW WARBLERS
and 2 OVENBIRDS along with a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER.
Laura Swant found a bird on Beck Hill Road north of Deer Lodge and when
Laura and Gary Swant relocated it on August 23rd they realized it was a
juvenile
LONG-TAILED JAEGER, which local residents said had been present for a week
eating grasshoppers on the road. It was gone the next day.
Larry Weeks will lead a half-day field trip to the Smurfit-Stone Plant on
Mullan
Road west of Missoula on Saturday Sept. 10th. Meet at the UofM Fieldhouse
at 800 am or at the main gate of the plant at 830 am.
If you have sightings you would like to share please leave a message or call
Carole or Terry at 549-6027. Thanks and Good Birding to You. HL-250.
- End Transcript