- RBA
* Montana
* Montana RBA
* 12-14-2006
* MTMS200612.14
Birds Mentioned
Yellow-billed Loon
Turkey Vulture
Cackling Geese
Long-tailed Duck
Gyrfalcon
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
ANCIENT MURRELET
Snowy Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
Black-capped Chickadee
Rock Wren
White-throated Sparrow
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Black Rosy-Finch
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll'
Hoary Redpoll
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Montana
number: 406-721-9799
to report: Terry Toppins home 406-549-6027, cell 406-214-1124, or
_tertop@aol.com_ (mailto:tertop@aol.com)
coverage: entire state
This is Terry Toppins with the Montana Birding Hotline sponsored
by Birdwatcher's Country Store located at the Orange Street
Travel Center on Orange Street at the Orange Street Exit off
Interstate 90 open Tuesday thru Saturday recorded extremely
early Thursday December 14th, 2006.
Don't forget to help with your local Christmas Bird Count!!
Garrett MacDonald visited Lee Metcalf NWR near Stevensville today the
13th and found a LONG-TAILED DUCK. There has also been a female
LONG-TAILED DUCK at the Smurfit-Stone Plant west of Missoula the
last week per Larry Weeks.
Chuck Carlson found his first THAYER'S GULL of the winter at Ft. Peck
Nov 25th and a second year GLAUCOUS GULL Nov 28th. They were still
present Dec 11th when Gary Swant and Chuck went birding and there
was also a MEW GULL present. Chuck also reported there was still a
group of 100 to 150 CACKLING GEESE present on the Missouri River
below the dam. They also did find a SNOWY OWL north of Ft. Peck
on the 11th.
Beth Madden reported from Medicine Lake NWR on the 12th that she has
hordes of COMMON REDPOLLS visiting her feeder along with 3 BLACK-
CAPPED CHICKADEES. It is the first time in her 4 years there that she
has had Chickadees show up.
Dec 12th, Billie Hicks found a TURKEY VULTURE about one mile down-
stream from the Huntley Bridge over the Yellowstone River.
Bob Martinka found a NORTHERN PYGMY OWL along the road to Hauser
Dam/Black Sandy State Park on Dec.7th.
Steve Sherman was out looking for winter birds in the Dillon Area Dec.6th
and was surprised to find a single BURROWING OWL in an old badger hole.
Ted Nordhagen had a SNOWY OWL 12 miles south of Westby near Dominek
Lake on the 7th along with several SHORT-EARED OWLS. On the 5th
Ted saw a dark GYRFALCON south of Westby and Beth Madden also had
one near Medicine Lake at about the same time. Ted also had several flocks
of SNOW BUNTINGS each with 30 to 50 birds.
Barb Jaquith in Red Lodge had a new yard bird on Dec 3rd - a WHITE-
THROATED SPARROW which is a new bird for that quarter latilong.
Dec 3rd Bob Rost and John Schenk made a circle through Kalispell and found
a flock of about 100 COMMON REDPOLLS that had 2 HOARY REDPOLLS in it.
They also found 10 PINE GROSBEAKS on Foothills Road. In Big Fork they
saw a NORTHERN PYGMY OWL.
Dec 2nd Dave Williams drove from Great Falls towards Cascade and found a
flock of 50 GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCHES.
Dec 2nd Bob Martinka found a ROCK WREN at Ulm Pishkum State Park SW
of Great Falls.
Mike Lesnik and Lou Ann Harris went to Gardiner on the 1st of Dec, to see a
flock of 60 BLACK ROSY-FINCHES and GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCHES.
Bob Rost had a flock of about 220 EVENING GROSBEAKS at his feeders north
of Big Fork on Nov 30th.
Harriet Marble reported Nov 29th that 3 SNOWY OWLS had been reported to her.
One was 2 miles north of Rudyard, one was 1 mile north of Joplin and 1 was
on
the dike 1/2 mile southwest of Tiber Dam which was 15 miles south of Chester.
The field trip from Missoula led by Jim Brown on Dec 2nd found 1 SNOWY OWL
near Pablo NWR in the same area Snowies congregated last year.
Nov 23rd Dan and Susannah Casey on a walk in Somers saw a first year
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL in amongst a string of gulls flying from the Flathead
Landfill to Flathead Lake. I don't have the date handy but he later also
found a
GLAUCOUS GULL at the Flathead Landfill.
Nov. 22nd Gary Swant found a dead ANCIENT MURRELET one half mile from
his home in Deer Lodge that was apparently blown in by a storm.
A YELLOW-BILLED LOON was on Lake Elmo in Billings Nov 18th and persisted
until at least the 26th.
If you have sightings you would like to share, please leave a message or
call
Carole or Terry at 549-6027 or my cell phone at 214-1174. Happy Holidays and
may all your bird sightings be good ones! HL-268a.
- End Transcript
* Montana
* Montana RBA
* 12-14-2006
* MTMS200612.14
Birds Mentioned
Yellow-billed Loon
Turkey Vulture
Cackling Geese
Long-tailed Duck
Gyrfalcon
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
ANCIENT MURRELET
Snowy Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
Black-capped Chickadee
Rock Wren
White-throated Sparrow
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Black Rosy-Finch
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll'
Hoary Redpoll
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Montana
number: 406-721-9799
to report: Terry Toppins home 406-549-6027, cell 406-214-1124, or
_tertop@aol.com_ (mailto:tertop@aol.com)
coverage: entire state
This is Terry Toppins with the Montana Birding Hotline sponsored
by Birdwatcher's Country Store located at the Orange Street
Travel Center on Orange Street at the Orange Street Exit off
Interstate 90 open Tuesday thru Saturday recorded extremely
early Thursday December 14th, 2006.
Don't forget to help with your local Christmas Bird Count!!
Garrett MacDonald visited Lee Metcalf NWR near Stevensville today the
13th and found a LONG-TAILED DUCK. There has also been a female
LONG-TAILED DUCK at the Smurfit-Stone Plant west of Missoula the
last week per Larry Weeks.
Chuck Carlson found his first THAYER'S GULL of the winter at Ft. Peck
Nov 25th and a second year GLAUCOUS GULL Nov 28th. They were still
present Dec 11th when Gary Swant and Chuck went birding and there
was also a MEW GULL present. Chuck also reported there was still a
group of 100 to 150 CACKLING GEESE present on the Missouri River
below the dam. They also did find a SNOWY OWL north of Ft. Peck
on the 11th.
Beth Madden reported from Medicine Lake NWR on the 12th that she has
hordes of COMMON REDPOLLS visiting her feeder along with 3 BLACK-
CAPPED CHICKADEES. It is the first time in her 4 years there that she
has had Chickadees show up.
Dec 12th, Billie Hicks found a TURKEY VULTURE about one mile down-
stream from the Huntley Bridge over the Yellowstone River.
Bob Martinka found a NORTHERN PYGMY OWL along the road to Hauser
Dam/Black Sandy State Park on Dec.7th.
Steve Sherman was out looking for winter birds in the Dillon Area Dec.6th
and was surprised to find a single BURROWING OWL in an old badger hole.
Ted Nordhagen had a SNOWY OWL 12 miles south of Westby near Dominek
Lake on the 7th along with several SHORT-EARED OWLS. On the 5th
Ted saw a dark GYRFALCON south of Westby and Beth Madden also had
one near Medicine Lake at about the same time. Ted also had several flocks
of SNOW BUNTINGS each with 30 to 50 birds.
Barb Jaquith in Red Lodge had a new yard bird on Dec 3rd - a WHITE-
THROATED SPARROW which is a new bird for that quarter latilong.
Dec 3rd Bob Rost and John Schenk made a circle through Kalispell and found
a flock of about 100 COMMON REDPOLLS that had 2 HOARY REDPOLLS in it.
They also found 10 PINE GROSBEAKS on Foothills Road. In Big Fork they
saw a NORTHERN PYGMY OWL.
Dec 2nd Dave Williams drove from Great Falls towards Cascade and found a
flock of 50 GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCHES.
Dec 2nd Bob Martinka found a ROCK WREN at Ulm Pishkum State Park SW
of Great Falls.
Mike Lesnik and Lou Ann Harris went to Gardiner on the 1st of Dec, to see a
flock of 60 BLACK ROSY-FINCHES and GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCHES.
Bob Rost had a flock of about 220 EVENING GROSBEAKS at his feeders north
of Big Fork on Nov 30th.
Harriet Marble reported Nov 29th that 3 SNOWY OWLS had been reported to her.
One was 2 miles north of Rudyard, one was 1 mile north of Joplin and 1 was
on
the dike 1/2 mile southwest of Tiber Dam which was 15 miles south of Chester.
The field trip from Missoula led by Jim Brown on Dec 2nd found 1 SNOWY OWL
near Pablo NWR in the same area Snowies congregated last year.
Nov 23rd Dan and Susannah Casey on a walk in Somers saw a first year
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL in amongst a string of gulls flying from the Flathead
Landfill to Flathead Lake. I don't have the date handy but he later also
found a
GLAUCOUS GULL at the Flathead Landfill.
Nov. 22nd Gary Swant found a dead ANCIENT MURRELET one half mile from
his home in Deer Lodge that was apparently blown in by a storm.
A YELLOW-BILLED LOON was on Lake Elmo in Billings Nov 18th and persisted
until at least the 26th.
If you have sightings you would like to share, please leave a message or
call
Carole or Terry at 549-6027 or my cell phone at 214-1174. Happy Holidays and
may all your bird sightings be good ones! HL-268a.
- End Transcript