Date: 11/10/25 9:20 am From: Brian Broderick <brian.j.broderick...> Subject: [ia-bird] Re: RUFF juvenile Linn County - Powerplant Road marsh
Just made the location change in my ebird list with the Ruff. Thanks.
---Brian Broderick,
Solon
On Monday, November 10, 2025 at 9:27:54 AM UTC-6 <caloc......> wrote:
> To all who saw the Ruff and added it on eBird-
>
> Aaron Brees has added an official hotspot for this site, called "Lewis
> Bottoms marsh - private property". It would be useful for record keeping in
> ebird and for Iowa Ornithologists Union to move your sightings to this
> hotspot. In your account, you Manage Sightings, navigate to that sighting
> and Edit Location. You can then use Nearby Location on a Map and zoom in to
> find the new hotspot right near your pin and click on it.
>
> Word was the marsh froze over yesterday, and there was little to see
> there. It may thaw again and attract waterfowl but who knows about the Ruff.
>
> Jesse Ellis
> Coe College Biology
> Cedar Rapids, Iowa
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM Jesse Ellis <caloc......> wrote:
>
>> Hey all-
>>
>> I found a juvenile RUFF this evening at Power Plant Road and Hollenbeck
>> Road. The bird was on the SE side of the marsh and most easily seen from a
>> little hill on Linn County Learning Farm land to the west of that
>> intersection.
>>
>> It was mostly foraging and only once in a while flew from one spot to
>> another, and only spooked once, doing a circuit of the pond and returning,
>> mostly startled by Rusty Blackbirds, I think. So I'm hoping it sticks until
>> tomorrow. A few other folks from Linn Co made it in time to see it before
>> the light got too low.
>>
>> As I was leaving (well after sunsut) I stopped to chat with a kid who was
>> watching the geese come in to roost, and in one flock were three Cackling
>> Geese. There may have been another or two in other flocks but it's possible
>> they were repeat sightings of some of the first three.
>>
>> THEN, the boy says "what's that?" and points up - high in the air was a
>> heron, of some kind... Not big enough to be a Great Blue, and much more
>> compact, but far too big to be a Green Heron, and had too long of a bill
>> and legs to be a night-heron... a migrating American Bittern!
>>
>> There are bad photos and rough video that I think establish the ID at my
>> ebird list here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S283062979 >>
>> --
>> Jesse Ellis
>> Cedar Rapids
>>
>
>
> --
> Jesse Ellis
>
