Date: 4/21/25 3:39 pm From: Doug & Nina Harr <dnharr...> Subject: [ia-bird] Great day for "waterbirds" near Ames & Bjorkboda Marsh
At private wetlands on the north side of 100th St. across from McHugh wetlands (Boone-Hamilton Co. line) this morning, I had a Short-billed Dowitcher, a Virginia Rail , and at least 2 Soras. Bjorkboda Marsh also had a number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds. When I left Ames this afternoon, at the far west edge of town on a small artificial wetland on the south side of Lincoln Way (next to Haber Technologies), there were a number of shorebirds, including many Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, a Dunlin, a Pectoral Sandpiper, and at least 3 Wilson's Phalaropes. Things are really on the move in migration now!
