Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the MOB-Montana group: Eleven entries for the July 'Photo of the Month Contest!' Please select your...
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MOB-sters: Steve Gniadek asked me to post the following sighting for him. Yesterday at noon, he saw an adult, light-phase Broad-winged Hawk along the Rocky...
All, Birded Freezout Lake with Larry Carter this morning with an emphasis on shorebirds. Suitable habitat is hard to come by and is limiting the shorebird...
Any lurkers from the above area? Looks like I will have three empty days (Thu-Sat) between kayak races in Bristol, Ind next week. Please contact me off group...
Fellow MOB-sters: Another post by request, this from Greg Butcher of National Audubon: Hi Dan, Could you post this to the Montana listserv for me? I am a ...
Mobsters Just an observation sparked by Greg's post and the posts in Birding Frontiers. We had two juvenile White-winged Crossbills in the yard in Ft. Peck on...
Hi Mike, my name is Larry Carter am origanally from Indiana. I moved out west about four and one half years ago first moving to Medford, Oregon then moved to...
MOB: There continue to be good numbers of shorebirds on Lake Helena. For those of you without a boat, there was a nice variety of peeps at the boat launch site...
Greetings Birders, Spent the morning at Benton Lake this morning. Still lots of little ones and even got to see Sora youngsters. When I first got there on the...
mobsters, Just a note to thank John Carlson and Tim Barksdale for their assistance last year relative to our quest for the white-headed woodpecker. Their...
Thanks to Larry Carter and Byron Butler I now have information and contacts for several days of birding in north-central Indiana before turning back west (had...
This bird is puzzling us. While working at the Upper Missouri Breaks Audubon exhibit at the State Fair yesterday we had a couple that asked about a bird that...
There is a good population of Lewis's Woodpeckers here "in the neighborhood" as I and a few other MOB neighbors can attest. I had a Northern Flicker drumming...
Years ago my son worked at the Sieben Ranch outside Helena. Cranes - the first I'd ever seen - were to be seen in summer but nobody knew what they were so we...
Thanks - I was wondering if he was told they were "drumming" birds, not "dremel" birds. As I can't see any bird having a "dremel"activity, "drumming" yes. A...
Hello Mobsters, Got to Benton Lake a little earlier than yesterday thru the prairie fog. It was cooler but sunnier. Soras were still everywhere! Additions to...
Mob A lone Great Egret has been hanging out at Shupak Pond in The Dry Creek Area east of Red Lodge for the past 3 days. This is a private are where you need...
A sighting just across the border in ND! Am sharing just in case anyone on this side wants to go have a look-see assuming it's not a migrant at this time. ...
Hi MOBsters, If interested in a camera trap for photographing birds (and mamals) go to www.bmumford.com/photo/ and look at this interesting contraption. If ...
MOBsters, The Juy 'Photo of the Month' poll closes tonight. I won't tell you which photos ae involved but the top two are presently tied, so wee need for the...
Mobsters I haven't asked Ted about Westby lately but yesterday, 8/4, There was a Tennessee Warbler and a Blackpoll Warbler if the backyard here at Ft. Peck. So...
All, I had two hummingbirds at my home in Choteau this morning. They were feeding at the wife's potted flowers on the deck. At least one was a juvenile...
Mob, I can't add any additional warblers to those Chuck mentioned, but today at the park I had a B.C. Chickadee. Believe it or not, this is quite a rare bird...
Serendipitously, a female hummingbird (species unknown, the only one I've seen this summer) was interested in my pink-blooming geranium early this A.M. Last...
Birders, I went out this afternoon to see if I could find the Great Gray Owl that has been reported the last three weeks between Warm Springs and Anaconda. My...
The following MOB-Montana poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Eleven entries for the July 'Photo of the Month Contest!' Please...
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Aug 6, 2008 11:29 am
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Moblers I have posted a photo of a Blue Grosbeak. The photo was taken between 3 and 4 miles east on the Pryor Mountain Road from highway 310. We have made a...
Hi Barb, Thanks for posting the photo and for trying to nail down Montana's first breeding record for the species. It might be difficult to tell a juvenile...
Jeff I have many photos of the Grosbeaks. Unfortunately none of them show the rump area. We have been watching closely for the blue that you mentioned and for...