RadleyIce » WilderTrack http://www.radleyice.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:25:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WilderTrack 3.0 – Time for a new beginning http://www.radleyice.com/2009/10/wildertrack-3-0-time-for-a-new-beginning/ http://www.radleyice.com/2009/10/wildertrack-3-0-time-for-a-new-beginning/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:10:32 +0000 Radd Icenoggle http://www.radleyice.com/2009/10/wildertrack-3-0-time-for-a-new-beginning/

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Integrate Twitter, Facebook and your blog to your WilderTrack account

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Multiple Bird Taxonomic Systems – including WilderTax incorporating the latest research

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Sunday, Sam Koenen and I went on a twitch for the first presumed Eastern Meadowlark in Montana. The bird is located in some sedge meadow habitat within a large private ranch that graciously granted us access with a field researcher, Bo. Bo led us right to the bird and both of us were able to get plenty of images although mine were taken with manual focus (blasted broken lens). The song and field marks all lead me to the consensus conclusion that this individual is an Eastern Meadowlark. It was great to have a twitchable bird again in Montana.

By the way, I did get my first-of-year Ferruginous Hawk, just north of the ranch along the highway.
Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Meadowlark
Sam stalking the Meadowlark Eastern Meadowlark

We went on to Ennis and Yesterday’s Cafe for the best hash browns with sausage gravy ever. Don’t believe me, try it, I dare you. From the cafe, we traveled along the south and east sides of Ennis Lake to the north side, and then onward to Beartrap Canyon. The shores of the lake were thick with Double-crested Cormorants and American White Pelicans. Franklin’s Gulls were swarming over the adjacent grasslands for presumably flying insects along with 6 species of swallows. We come across a cooperative Osprey pair as well.

Ferruginous Hawk Pelicans and Cormorants
Pelicans and Cormorants Pelicans and Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorants Pronghorn
Osprey Osprey pair
Osprey Osprey
Osprey Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird Eastern Kingbird
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On the Madison River, the concentrations of American White Pelican and California Gull were outstanding. Along the Beartrap Canyon, we managed a few Spotted Towhees, Hammond’s Flycatcher, and White-throated Swift. The swifts were calling loudly as the caddisfly hatch from the river was bountiful.

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California Gull California Gull
California Gulls Common Ringlet
Spotted Towhee Spotted Towhee
Spotted Towhee

What a day. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to see this bird, and I wish to thank Garrett MacDonald, Bo Crees, and the O’Dell Creek Ranch.

WilderTrack trip report

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