January 1 - I participated in the Spearfish Christmas Bird Count, birding
open grasslands, ranches, some residential areas and St. Onge north of Spearfish (with Jocelyn Baker)(37)
January 2 - I helped with the Canyon Lake survey (Rapid City) and then birded west of
there (Sturgis, Bear Butte areas)(20)
January 3 - I headed east
to the Pierre area for gulls, Snowy Owls, but before I got to look for gulls, I learned from Ricky Davis that Hiddenwood SP
near Selby had good birds, so I headed there; overnight in Selby (9)
January
4 - back to Hiddenwood, then to Pierre and home (no gulls found in Pierre)(3)
January 5 - I looked for Pinyon Jays and Evening Grosbeaks west of Rapid City (no luck on either), and then bird
Bear Butte again (finally Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch)(1)
January
6 - In Rapid City, mostly not birding (1)
January 7 - Went to
La Creek NWR for Trumpeter Swans (3)
January 8 - Went for a walk along
Rapid Creek from 32nd to Jackson Park and back (1)
January 9 - Canyon
Lake weekly survey at 7 AM; back of yard, Rapid City (1)
January 10
- local; not really birding (2)
January
11 - local; not really birding (0)
January
12 - client meeting in Lead in morning so bird on the way there and back; no new birds, just client work (0)
January 13 - drove to Lake Andes; overnight in Pickstown (4)
January 14 - bird Pickstown and up the Missouri River, Pierre, Ft. Pierre Nat. Grasslands &
return home at night (6)
January 15 - local; not birding
(0)
January 16 - Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM (1)
January 17 - local; not birding (0)
January
18 - needed to be in town; no time to bird (0)
January 19
- drove to Pickstown to look for Barrow's Goldeneye that was just reported, which we saw, plus Red-breasted Merganser (3)
January 20 - birded in Black Hills (Custer SP), Whitewood, Bear Butte (2)
January 21 - went birding at Custer SP but no new birds (0)
January 22 - local, little birding (0)
January
23 - Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM; then drove to Mitchell (0)
January
24 - to Huron, Brookings, and back to Rapid City (3)
January 25 - no
birding - had to work (0)
January 26 - drove to Spearfish, Hanna, north
of Spearfish, Piedmont, then home (4)
January 27 - worked at home (0)
January 28 - worked at home (0)
January
29 - in town (0)
January 30 - went to Storybook Island before
dawn; Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM (1)
January 31 - drove north
to Harding Co. (1)
February
1 - no birding (0)
February 2 - Custer State Park and Sylvan Lake area
(2)
February 3 - no birding (0)
February 4 - found time to head east on 44 in the afternoon & then return home (1)
February 5 - no birding plans (0)
February
6 - Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM (0)
February 7-8 no birding plans
(0)
February 9 - left early and birded heading east to NE corner
of SD, back to Sisseton (2)
February 10 - south to Canton, west
via Gavin's Pt. & Ft. Randall areas, to Pierre for next day's Pierre field trip (0)
February 11 - Northern Hills Bird Club trip to Pierre (6)
February 12 - no birding plans (0)
February
13 - Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM (0)
February 14-15 - no birding/at
home (0)
February 16 - went to Yankton and Ft. Randall (2)
February 17-20 - Great Backyard Bird Count (0)
February 20 - Canyon Lake weekly survey at 7 AM (0)
February
21 - home (0)
February 22 - Meade and Lawrence Counties (2)
February 23-26 home (0)
February 27
- Canyon Lake weekly survey (0)
February 28 -29 home (0)
March 1 - birding in Rapid City (0)
March
2 -4 drive around west-river when not working (0)
March 5 - Canyon
Lake weekly survey (0)
March 6 - LaCreek NWR (1)
March 7 - Butte & Harding Cos. (0)
March
8 - Rapid City to Sioux Falls (0)
March 9 - Newton Hills SP to Madison
to Pierre (2)
March 10 - central SD (2)
March 11 - no plans (0)
March 12 - Canyon Lake
weekly survey (0)
March 13 - Butte & Harding Counties (1)
March 14 - home (0)
March 15 -
Canyon Lake (0)
March 16 - Pierre and surrounding areas (4)
March 17 - Pierre and surrounding areas (0)
March 18 - LaCreek NWR & Angostura (3)
March 19 - Canyon
Lake survey (0)
March 20 - Rapid City/home (0)
March 21 - Rapid City/home (0)
March
22-24 - trip to North Carolina for CLE (not birds)
March 25 - Rapid
City/home, eastern Meade Co. (3)
March 26 - Canyon Lake survey, Bear
Butte Lake & Belle Fourche Reservoir (1)
March 27 - east to near
Huron area and Pierre (6)
March 28 - home (0)
March 29 - drive to Sioux Falls via Randall Dam area and Newton Hills SP (4)
March 30 - Newton Hills SP, Oak Ridge GPA, Randall Dam, LaCreek NWR to home (7)
March 31 - Black Hills, including Hanna Rd. and Ward Draw (2)
April 1 - not birding (0)
April 2 - Canyon
Lake survey (1)
April 3 - a few hours birding Meade and Butte Counties
(1)
April 4 -home/local (0)
April 5 - Pierre and north to Stone Lake (3)
April
6 - Pierre and KaCreek NWR (2)
April 7 - home (0)
April 8 - home/Sevey Lk. (2)
April
9 - Canyon Lake Survey; drive to Pierre area and back (2)
April
10 - home (1)
April 11 - home (1)
April 12 - drive to Pierre and then north/east to Webster (8)
April 13 - drive to Waubay area, then south to Miner Co. and then to Pickstown (10)
April 14 -bird near Fort Randall dam and then home (2)
April 15 - home (0)
April 16 - Canyon
Lake Survey (0)
April 17 - east and then north to Desmet (2)
April 18 - potholes east river, then to Pierre and home (3)
April 19 - morning trip to Black Hills (0)
April
20 - in evening drive to Pierre to get head start on trip east (1)
April
21 - east to try for gull, then north to Brown/Marshall Cos, back to Lk. Thompson, then to Pierre & home (4)
April 22 - home (0)
April
23 - Canyon Lake survey (2)
April 24 - home (0)
April 25 - home, trip to Meade Co. & rural Pennington Co. (3)
April 26 - to Pierre to give bird talk and to bird (1)
April 27 - bird Pierre/east river (3)
April
28 - continue birding east river and then home (9)
April 29 -
home (0)
April 30- Canyon Lake survey (1)
May 1 - drive to Pierre (0)
May 2 - east
on 14, north to Sand Lake, back to Aberdeen (4)
May 3 - bird 12
to Stone Lk., south to Pierre and then home (3)
May 4 - home,
bird Sevey Lake area in afternoon (2)
May 5 - Black Hills in morning,
then drive to Pierre (3)
May 6 - Pierre area and then to home (14)
May 7 - Canyon Lake survey (1)
May
8 - home/work (0)
May 9 - Lake Andes, Yankton (14)
May 10 - to Newton Hills SP to Vermillion (9)
May 11 - east river from Adams Homestead and up to east of Mitchell (4)
May 12 - participate in west-river count-Nemo Rd. (Pennington Co.)(1)
May 13 - home & participate in west-river count (0)
May
14 - Canyon Lk. survey, night-birding west of Rapid City (1)
May 15
- home/work, then a swing east of Rapid City up to Meade Co. (2)
May
16 - home/work, plus up to Ward Draw, out to Belle Fourche Reservoir (3)
May
17 - leave for eastern SD early AM, birded east of Hecla, then down to Sioux Falls (3)
May 18 - bird Sioux Falls area, then to Pickstown (4)
May
19 - Lake Andes festival (3)
May 20 - Lake Andes festival (3)
May 21 - Canyon Lake survey (1)
May 22 - home (0)
May 23 - drive east to Sioux Falls
(1)
May 24 - Newton Hills SP, Sioux Falls, to Watertown (2)
May 25 - Hartford Beach SP, Sica Hollow SP, Sand Lake NWR, Aberdeen (1)
May 26 - back to Rapid via Stone Lake and Pierre (1)
May 27 - home (0)
May 28 - Canyon Lake
survey & Hammerquist Rd. (2)
May 29 - home & Hammerquist
Rd. (2)
May 30 - home and Badlands NP (1)
May 31 - unknown (0)
June
1 - drive to Edgemont via Hot Springs (SDOU meeting) (3)
June
2 - Black Hills/SDOU spring meeting (4)
June 3 - Black Hills/SDOU
spring meeting (0)
June 4 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
June 5- to Lyman Co. for Henslow's with JB (1)
June 6 - home (0)
June 7 - Badlands with
JB (1)
June 8 - bird Black Hills with out-of-town friend; then
head east-river (1)
June 9 - bird east river (e.g., Oakwood Lks
SP, Sica Hollow SP)(1)
June 10 - head west up to Harding Co.
(1)
June 11 - Canyon Lake survey, then to Pine Ridge for Cassin's
Kingbird (1)
June 12 - to Black Fox area to figure out my new
BBS route (0)
June 13 - home and client work (0)
June 14 - possibly to Elk Mt. area to figure out another of my new BBS routes (0)
June 15 - nowhere/home (0)
June
16 - Slim Buttes & Meade Co.(1)
June 17 - nowhere/home (0)
June 18 - Canyon Lake survey; Fort Meade Nat. Rec. Area (0)
June 19 - Breeding Bird Survey (Owanka) aborted due to wind (0)
June 20 - Breeding Bird Survey (Owanka); Belle Fourche Reservoir (0)
June 21 - drive to north Perkins Co. to pre-run Breeding Bird Survey Route (0)
June 22 - Breeding Bird Survey (Lodgepole); bird Grand River National Grassland (1)
June 23 - bird Camp Crook Rd. (1)
June 24 - no plans (0)
June 25 - Canyon Lake survey
(0)
June 26 - home (0)
June 27 - Sevey Lake (0)
June 28 - Pennington
Co. east of Rapid City (0)
June 29 - Breeding Bird Survey (Black
Fox) (0)
June 30 - Yankton and Vermillion areas (0)
July 1 - home (0)
July
2 - Canyon Lake survey; bird Hand Co. to Aberdeen (1)
July 3
- bird Brown Co. (1)
July 4 - home (0)
July 5 - dipper nesting survey in Black Hills (0)
July 6 - Ft. Meade Rec. Area to Galena Rd to Nemo Rd. (Black Hills)(1)
July 7 - give talk in Deadwood; drive through Fort Meade Rec. Area (1)
July 8 - home (1)
July 9 - Canyon Lake
survey (0)
July 10 - Sage Creek Rd., Pennington Co. (1)
July 11 - Custer & Fall River Counties (0)
July 12 - Stanley & Sully Counties (0)
July
13 - home (0)
July 14 - Lawrence & Custer Counties (1)
July 15 - home (0)
July
16 - Canyon Lake survey; east to Charles Mix Co. (1)
July 17
- return west on 18 and various gravel roads south of 18 (1)
July
18 - home (0)
July 19 - Hell Canyon (1)
July 20 - home (0)
July
21 - Fall River Co. (0)
July 22 - Sevey Lk. (Pennington Co.)
(0)
July 23 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
July 24 - home (0)
July 25 - home (0)
July 26 - Rochford/Custer in hills; east to Sully Co. (0)
July 27 - Black Fox/Rochford/Custer areas (0)
July 28 - N. Hills Bird Club - Meade Co. (0)
July 29
- home (0)
July 30 - Canyon Lake survey, then east to Torrey
Lake, New Holland, Sioux Falls (2)
July 31 - Newton Hills SP,
drive home
August 1 - Sevey Lk. & Hammerquist Rd. (0)
August 2 - home (0)
August
3 - home (0)
August 4 - Hanna Rd. & Sheridan Lk. (1)
August 5 - unknown (0)
August
6 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
August 7 - home (0)
August 8 - home (0)
August
9 - Ward Draw (0)
August 10 - Torrey Lk, Springfield along Mo.
R., to Vermillion (0)
August 11 - south of Vermillion; explore
accesses to Mo.; Lacreek NWR to home (0)
August 12 - home (0)
August 13 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
August 14 - Jackson Park (Rapid City) (0)
August 15
- west of Edgemont (0)
August 16- Sevey Lake, Hammerquist Rd.
(0)
August 17 - Jackson Park (Rapid City) and Hell Canyon
(0)
August 18 - Jackson Park
August 19 - drive east to Sisseton (0)
August
20 - Sica Hollow SP, Hecla (3)
August 21 - bird on way back
to Rapid City, Torrey Lake, Pierre (0)
August 22 - Mo. R.
in Pierre area, then home (1)
August 23 - home (0)
August 24 - home (0)
August
25 - Hanna area (NHBC field trip) (0)
August 26 - home (0)
August 27 - Wilderness Park/Outdoor Campus (Rapid City) survey (0)
August 28 - Hanna and Ward Draw (1)
August 29 - Canyon Lake in morning (0)
August 30 - Jackson
Park (Rapid), to Aberdeen (0)
August 31 - to Sica Hollow SP to
Sisseton (3)
September 1 - Sica Hollow SP, to Pierre, to home
(0)
September 2 - home (0)
September 3 - Canyon Lake, Whitney Preserve (1)
September 4 - home (0)
September 5 to October 5
- lots of birding (including in NC) but no new SD birds (0)
October
6 - Pierre area (1)
October 7 - Pierre to home
October 8 - Canyon Lk. survey; Black Hills (0)
October 9 - home (0)
October 10 - Outer
Learning Ctr, Rapid City; drive to Pierre (0)
October 11 - Newton
Hills SP; Union Grove SP (1)
October 12 - Pierre to home (0)
October 13 - Angosturea Reservoir, Belle Fourche (0)
October 14 - home (0)
October 15 - drive to Watertown
(0)
October 16 - Lake Alice and other lakes, Sioux Falls, to Chamberlain
(1)
October 17 - Pierre to home (0)
October 18 - Belle Fourche (0)
October 19 - home
(0)
October 20 - to Charles Mix Co, Big Bend to home (0)
October 21 - home (0)
October 22 -
Canyon Lake survey; to Chamberlain (0)
October 23 - Lewis & Clark
Rec. Area; to Deuel Co. (2)
October 24 - to Pierre & home (0)
October 25 - home (0)
October 26 -
home (0)
October 27 - home (0)
October 28 - home (0)
October 29 - Canyon Lake
survey; to Fort Randall Dam (0)
October 30 - Fort Randall Dam; drive
to Shadehill Reservoir (1)
October 31 - Shadehill Reservoir; drive
home (0)
November 1 - home (0)
November 2 - home (0)
November 3 - home (0)
November 4 - home (0)
November 5 -
Canyon Lake survey (0)
November 6 - to Mitchell (0)
November 7 - Lake Co. to home (2)
November
8 - Pierre area (1)
November 9 - home (0)
November 10 - home (0)
November 11 - home (0)
November 12 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
November
13 - home (0)
November 14 - Angostura, Pactola, Bear Butte Lake (0)
November 15 - Fort Pierre, Pierre (1)
November
16 - Lake Hiddenwood to Chamberlain (0)
November 17 - to Pickstown
and Yankton to home (1)
November 18 - home (0)
November 19 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
November
20 - home (0)
November 21 - home (0)
November 22 - home (0)
November 23 - to Pierre
(0)
November 24 - Pierre to home (0)
November 25 - home (0)
November 26 - home (0)
November 27 - home (0)
November 28
- Canyon Lake survey (0)
November 29 - to Pierre and then Mobridge
(0)
November 30 - Mobridge and back to Pierre (1)
December 1 - Pierre to home (1)
December
2 - no plans (0)
December 3 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
December 4-7 - trip to Texas
December
8 - home (0)
December 9 - home (0)
December 10 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
December 11
- home (0)
December 12 - Rapid City checking areas for CBC (0)
December 13 - home (0)
December 14
- Piedmont CBC (0)
December 15 - Sturgis CBC (0)
December 16 - Rapid City CBC (0)
December 17 - drive to Pickstown, Ft. Randall dam area
(0)
December 18 - Fort Randall dam area and north along river (0)
December 19 - home (0)
December 20
- Badlands CBC (0)
December 21 - Black Hills (0)
December 22 - home (0)
December 23
- Black Hills (0)
December 24 - Canyon Lake survey (0)
December 25 - home (0)
December 26
- home (0)
December 27 - home (0)
December 28 - Pierre, Ft. Pierre grasslands (0)
December
29 - Pierre, north to Cow Creek, down to Ft. Randall to home (1)
December
30 - Badlands (0)
December 31 - Canyon Lake survey, Black Hills (0)
