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Friday, April 26, 2013

Custer State Park “lifers”


 

Now that I’ve become a dedicated birder “listing” is part of the game through such organizations  as ebird and MOU I keep track of my sightings.  This will be my sixth year of of this fun hobby. My life total is 277 birds identified. Two hundred and eight are from Minnesota. About 50 are from Florida and Arizona with the rest from states nearby.

Three recent “lifers” were from South Dakota’s Custer State Park.

A Mountain Bluebird

 


 


A Lewis Woodpecker

 




A Clarks Nutcracker

It was a veritable “Corps of Discovery” sighting.  Lewis and Clark in the mountains as it were....:

 



 

25 comments:

  1. Congrats on listing some new ones.
    I've never seen the Lewis woodpecker--what a pretty bird.

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  2. I love seeing new birds. What a fun hobby you have. Congrats on seeing so many!

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  3. How cool is that! The mountain bluebird is so pretty! :-)

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  4. 277 is a lot! Congrats! I am slowly trying to do the same thing and it is hard so my hat's off to you!

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  5. I'm very impressed with the number of different birds you've spotted in five years. Custer State Park is a great place to see all kinds of wildlife in addition to birds.

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  6. really awesome! thanks for sharing these beauties!

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  7. These are great! I had hoped to see more birds when hubby retired, even if I wasn't able to identify them. So far that hasn't happened. *sigh

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  8. I think that keeping track is a wonderful thing..that Mountain Bluebird is so beautiful! :)

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  9. All three would be lifers for me as well. I expect I would need to move a bit further west in order to see them, though.

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  10. Oh how neat!!!! I saw the Mountain Bluebird and the Clark's Nutcracker when we were out west --but have never seen that gorgeous woodpecker. Thanks for sharing.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  11. I remember seeing the Clark's Nutcracker while in Colorado a few years ago. I had never seen one before. They are a sleek looking bird from beak to tail.

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  12. That is so wonderful, wish I kept track of my sightings of different birds, love them......would sure like to visit that beautiful Park, thanks for sharing, Francine.

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  13. I would have a hard time thinking of the Lewis Woodpecker as a woodpecker with his purplish breast. But the give-away for me would me the beak. You sure have a long list of birds identified. -- barbara

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  14. That is some imposing list. All three are new to me. It must be exciting to add one and in this case 3 new discoveries. Well done.

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  15. I think that is a lot of birds to list! Impressive!!

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  16. I think bird watching is a great hobby. I look forward to doing more of it once I retire! 7 more years.... Sigh...
    xo Catherine

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  17. Great photos, Trout! Lovely birds.

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  18. Love the woodpecker.I have worked on research in Custer and always see something new.

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  19. Almost forgot, the mammoth and mastodons in my last post are in Morrill Hall at the U of NE in Lincoln. A favorite to enjoy.

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  20. Very nice photos! Love the Nutcracker. I have yet to see one of those.

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  21. Nice work spotting 3 new birds and sharing them with us!

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  22. Three very outstanding & good looking birds!

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  23. Great shots I love birdwatching we have a huge family of Eastern Bluebirds here again and it makes me very happy. B

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  24. Congrats on the additional birds. Glad you had fun in Custer. I work up by Nemo and was excited to see a Clark's Nutcracker also this year.

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  25. Those would all be lifers for me too.Congratulations and great job with the photos!

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