Monday, September 23, 2013

Return to Sedgwick County

September 23, 2013

Rebecca Kosten: transcript of telephone call:

Richard Stevens and Bryan Ehlmann drove to Ovid, target birds, Purple Finch and Eastern Whip-Poor-will.

Few birds were in Ovid Woods; the birds there were great.  A Black-throated Blue Warbler flew back and forth across Lodgepole Creek at just south of the High School.  A young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak was farther south near Parker Avenue.

They never found the Eastern Whip-Poor-will seen 9/16 to 9/19.  The young male Purple Finch was found at feeders it visited on 9/18 and 9/19.

At nearby Ovid Sewage Ponds they found a male Red-bellied Woodpecker and White-throated Sparrow.

Before the thunderstorm, they searched for Sprague's Pipits along the Sedgwick County Roads south of I76.  None was found but they did find a late migrating Dickcissel along CR 32.5.

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