Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the MOB-Montana group: Finally, the September 'Photo of the Month' contest begins! Looks like we have...
MOB-Montana@yahoogrou...
Oct 1, 2008 12:19 pm
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Birders, For your Information. Nate Kohler, Steve Parker, Bart Whelton and myself went on a Pelagic trip last Saturday out of Westport, WA. The Montana folks...
Mobsters The Varied Thrush reappeared in the backyard this morning after being gone for about five days. I found five Long-billed Dowitchers on a gravel bar on...
Birders, It has been a week since I have been to the city lagoon to look for shorebirds. Today the number of Wilson's Snipes was down to 22 from 69 a week ago....
Deborah, I live up Grant Creek road. There is a high bank just north of the old Sevenars Which is now a town pump station. This bank follows the road up to...
Mob: This morning, there were still a few pectoral sandpipers at the Helena Valley Reg. Res. One and possibly more golden plovers were still there -east of the...
As if on cue for fall, yesterday (01 Oct 2008) a male OREGON JUNCO was in our feeding area off and on all day, adding "excitement" to usual house finches,...
Nice BIRD! I did not see that one mentioned anywhere until you shared the news. That said, how certain are the pelagic folks of that bird being a Hawaiian...
Interested Birders, As Patrick Toomey said in this recent post the Hawaiian Petrel and the Galapagos Petrels are splits from the Dark-rumped Petrel. Although...
I was informed that sapsuckers after September are rare, and the last one we saw was on the 25th (a male), so we were happily surprised to see a new RED-NAPED...
After the rain started we decided to check out some potential winter birding sites. After noting a WESTERN GREBE and several RING-NECKED DUCKs among usual...
There was a noisy MERLIN flying about our neighborhood this morning (Sunday, 05 Oct 2008) The Red-naped Sapsucker is still present in Ash, despite rain most of...
Went for a short walk today up Grizzly Gulch just outside of Helena. Found on Northern Pygmy Owl, 4 Hairy Woodpeckers hanging out together, a few Ravens and...
MOB-sters: With 20 days in the field under our belts, I thought it would be good to send an update to the group. We have now seen 1349 individuals of 17 ...
The following MOB-Montana poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Finally, the September 'Photo of the Month' contest begins! Looks...
MOB-Montana@yahoogrou...
Oct 6, 2008 11:18 am
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Last night I went for another short walk in Helena and came across three Great Horned Owls. As my son and I watched one particularly large owl, another flew...
Mobsters Keep your ears and eyes open for the next few days. This afternoon several large flocks of Sandhill Cranes flew over the house. With the very strong...
How many "black" birds can sit in one tree or one yard? It was deafening to say the least. There was a swarm of grackles hitting my feeder Saturday evening....
Tis the season, soon if it hasn't started already the deer will start destroying trees. This was suggested to me by a gentleman from Canada. I was wondering if...
Well, didn't spot those migrating Sandhills of Chuck's but did have 7 Wild Turkeys, several Mountain Bluebirds, an adult Red-tail, Western Meadowlarks, a...
MOB-sters: This morning there were two adult Mew Gulls at the Lakeside docks (right off highway 93). I will post a couple of photos later. I also saw an adult...
MOBsters, Waterfowl season has begun. Slightly slow as far as hunters and bag is concerned. Few hunters on Monday and today. A good spot for birding is the...
Checked out the lake today and found a few birds to list. The seven Trumpter Swans were there, 6 Bonaparte's Gulls, 14 Black-bellied Plovers, 20 Long-billed...
All, Some interesting birds still being seen at Freezout Lake. This morning the Boneparte's Gulls, 1-200 Longbilled Dowitchers, a bunch of Black-bellied...
Birders, Nate Kohler and I went out today to see if we could find a Scoter. We had a Surf Scoter on Silver Lake last year on 9/28/07, but found none at Silver...
Hi Mike well I took a look at Freezout thursday evening while the temps were dropping very fast. I was not there very long but long enough to count 57...
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