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Started by JimBob, Jul 31 2012 10:22 PM

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#1 JimBob

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 10:22 PM

I'm dying to find some shorebirds!!! I have three, + a plover: Killdeer, American Avocet, Lesser Yellowlegs, and Spotted Sandpiper.

I was wondering if anybody knows any good areas with in 45 minutes of western St. Louis. . . Using ebird, Riverlands, and Simpson Park lake seems to be good. . . I really would like to know soon, because as you should know, the shorebird migration is underway.

If I don't get a response soon-ish, I think I will go to one of the two that I named.
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#2 JimBob

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 06:47 PM

Well, I'm going to go to Simpson Park Lake. . . Seems like several shorebirds there. (I'm going on Sat.)
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#3 JimBob

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Posted 04 August 2012 - 02:39 PM

Well there's a thunderstorm here in STL. . . so I'm not going. . . :angry: I'm trying to explain to my mom what a migration fall-out it. -_-
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 02:55 PM

YEAH!!!!!!! After all my complaining, and moping, my moms going to take me!!! :D
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 02:37 AM

Did you get to go, JimBob?

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Posted 05 August 2012 - 02:52 AM

Forget the West coast Jimbob.. come east.

Thousands of shorebirds round here!! :P

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Posted 05 August 2012 - 08:22 AM

Forget the West coast Jimbob.. come east.

Thousands of shorebirds round here!! :P


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#8 JimBob

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 04:37 PM

I got to go. . . and there wasn't much. Didn't even see a Killdeer. I did get to see a Yellow Warbler, get a photo lifer (GCFC), and see a host of herons. (Great Blue, Green, and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons. Great and Snowy Egrets.) I was thinking that there might have been a rookery, but saw no signs of one.

BB22, I would love to go to the east coast, it would be a first. . . but I'm tired of all this humidity!!! San Diego, has none. Think I'll pick it instead! :D Sorry
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Posted 06 August 2012 - 10:58 PM

arent yellow crowned night herons rare there
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#10 JimBob

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 01:04 AM

Nope. . . I don't see them super often, but if you look at ebird. . . they're all over the state.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 05:03 PM

I got to go. . . and there wasn't much. Didn't even see a Killdeer. I did get to see a Yellow Warbler, get a photo lifer (GCFC), and see a host of herons. (Great Blue, Green, and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons. Great and Snowy Egrets.) I was thinking that there might have been a rookery, but saw no signs of one.

BB22, I would love to go to the east coast, it would be a first. . . but I'm tired of all this humidity!!! San Diego, has none. Think I'll pick it instead! :D Sorry


Hey hey, come to Augusta, we have Pectoral, Spotted, Solitary, Semipalmated, and Least Sandpipers, both Yellowlegs and Killdeer all reported in the area. Great numbers of them too. Only problem is, the humidity is usually about 70-80% here. :P
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Posted 14 August 2012 - 02:36 AM

Once again, I'd love to go, but sick of humidity. And I highly doubt that my mom would take me.
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#13 Clip

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Posted 14 August 2012 - 12:32 PM

JimBob come to Colorado we have over 300 days of sunshine every year and very low humidity most of the time. And both mountain and plains birds within short a driving distance. We get a lot of birds that migrate through our wonderful State too.

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Posted 14 August 2012 - 11:50 PM

Wow, so many invatations! San Diego is where I'm headed though.
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