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  1. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City, Missouri, is currently hosting quite an assortment of birds. The migrating shorebirds (waders) are making a good showing with the various plovers, peeps, yellowlegs, willets, godwits, ibises, gulls, terns and some lingering ducks/geese. Bald Eagles have eaglets in...
  2. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    November 13, 2010, at Squaw Creek NWR Before I went to Headquarters to man the information desk at Squaw Creek NWR Saturday, I made a short trip around the auto tour loop. There are now thousands of waterfowl using the refuge. By far and away the most numerous while I was there were The...
  3. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Today at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri. Birded from 8 AM until Noon. Canada Goose Ring-necked Pheasant Northern Bobwhite Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron, many scattered around the refuge Great Egret - about 50 in one group, Eagle Pool (north) Green Heron - 2...
  4. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Yesterday I took the back roads up to Bob Brown CA (Forest City, Missouri) and Squaw Creek NWR (Mound City, Missouri) and tallied a day list of about 100 species. Some of my observations: There were a few species of waterfowl hanging out at Squaw Creek, Canada Goose, Gadwall, Mallard...
  5. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    This morning I birded Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri. I tallied fifteen (15) species of waterfowl: Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Ross's Goose (33 of these in a flock by themselves, no Snow Goose among them), Canada Goose, Wood Duck, Gadwall, Mallard...
  6. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge on November 25 Steve Kinder, Ted Vawter (visiting BF birder from Washington DC) and Larry Lade birded Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge this morning under clear and warming skies. We also did a short trip over to Big Lake State Park after birding the...
  7. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    A Morning's Birding At Squaw Creek NWR, November 21, 2008 Birds I saw at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri, the morning of November 21, 2008. Nearly 1/2 of the birds I saw today were waterfowl species: Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose...
  8. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Brenda and I are back from the Washington DC area visiting our daughter and her husband. So today, I went up to Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City, Missouri to check out what birds might there. Greater White-fronted Goose - abundant Snow Goose - abundant Ross's Goose - some Canada Goose - hundreds...
  9. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    CPJSJohnny, you could go to this form (Bird ID forum) and post some pics of the swans there. You would probably get some suggestions in short order! http://www.birdforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=114
  10. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    The auto tour loop at the refuge is now open. They have gotten it repaired much earlier than they had predicted! Steve Kinder and I birded Squaw Creek NWR (Mound City, Missouri) and some nearby areas March 25th and tallied 77 species, *one hybird and **one [Spp]. Eight of the species were FOY...
  11. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    The ten mile auto tour loop at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge is now only partially open due to high water damage to the roadway. The loop apparently will not be completely open until repair can be done to the extensively damaged roadway on the north end of the loop. I understand that the...
  12. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    Leo Galloway called me last night and said he had seen two Sandhill Cranes and some possible Tundra Swans (in with about 40 Trumpeter Swans) up at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri. He wanted me to check on the swans and see what I thought. Well, I went up today. I...
  13. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    September 18, 2007 at Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City After our bird banding session at Missouri Western State University's campus, Steve and I drove up to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge (Mound City, Missouri) for some birding. The intermittent showers did not dampen our spirits as we were...
  14. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    April 12, 2007 Hearing about the Cinnamon Teal and all the shore birds that were recently seen at Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City, Missouri, I decided this morning that I had to go and take a look. Well, no joy on the Cinnamon Teal and the shorebirds were pretty much non-existent, except for a lot...
  15. Larry Lade

    Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

    February 23, 2007 I drove up to Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City, yesterday to see if the ice covered areas were beginning to disappear and to observe what bird species were around. When I got up there it looked like all the wet area were still entirely covered in ice. I thought that perhaps I...
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