Date: 7/13/25 5:06 pm From: Don and Shirley Maas via groups.io <snowbirds2012...> Subject: Re: [NEBirds] Howard County
Thanks for your posts. Look forward bto them.
Birding here in AZ. Is very early morning.
Got a Bobcat this morning and twenty foot look at perched TV at Usery Regional Park
this am.
Return to NE plans on hold due to illness of my bother.
Don Maas
Mesa, AZ
Maricopa County, AZ
😊🌴🌵🌴🌵🏠
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> On Jul 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM, <Robin Harding via groups.io (mailto:<pine2siskin4...>)> wrote:
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> Bill Flack and I birded in Howard County on Saturday, July 12. We started fairly early in Dannebrog on the hike/bike trail. We began the walk near the water tower and went around the sewage lagoons. We started to walk into the woods but were soon encouraged to turn back by the mosquitoes, who were thick and thirsty. We continued along the main trail and decided to take the long loop, which goes around the north edge of town and then back to the water tower.
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> We saw and heard thirty-seven species including a few Spotted Sandpipers, Red-eyed Vireos, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a couple Bell’s Vireos, some Towhees, Cedar Waxwings, a Field Sparrow and a Great Crested Flycatcher. The Towhees sounded to me like Spotted but we did not see any of them. We enjoyed three lovely hours walking the trail.
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> We weren’t quite ready to call it a day so we drove to Boelus along county roads. The scenery is beautiful and the plants are still green. We stopped at Fries Park which is on the south bank of the Middle Loup River. We saw and heard twenty-three species. The highlights were a Least Tern and an Indigo Bunting.
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> All of our bird sightings are on ebird.
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> Robin Harding
> Shelton, Nebraska
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