Highlight Images of Spring 2020 Field trip to the Great Plain with Godwits7-26 May 2020. 14 States

    eastern South Dakota

Here are my very favorite images from this field trip. Stand by for my next field trip. I will be departing to drive to the Arctic Ocean in Canada (village of Tuktoyaktuk) in late June – early July. The Mackenzie River Delta is the central breeding grounds of the Hudsonian Godwit.

    flock of Hudsonian Godwits, Nebraska

    Long-billed Dowitcher, Nebraska

    foraging Hudsonian Godwits, South Dakota

     foraging Hudsonian Godwit, South Dakota

    close-up of male Hudsonian Godwit

    distinctive black-and-white rump and tail of the godwits

    Sharp-tailed Grouse in lek

    Sharp-tailed Grouse close up, Bentonite Road, Montana

     male Lark Bunting on territory, Bentonite Road, Montana

    omnipresent Horned Lark, Bentonite Rd, Montana

    McCown's Longspur, Bentonite Rd

     adult Marbled Godwit on territory, Felton Prairie, western Minnesota

    American Bitterns were a common roadside bird where there great plains wetlands

    male Blackburnian Warbler, Sax-Zim Bog, Minnesota

              male Lazuli Bunting, Glendive, MT

    male Cape May Warbler, Greenwood Lake, MN

    Long-billed Curlew, Bentonite Rd, Montana

    Yellow-headed Blackbird male in display, North Dakota

    Upland Sandpiper in courtship, South Dakota (Lake City, SD)

    Swainson's Hawk, north of Aberdeen, SD

    female Wilson's Phalarope

    Nashville Warbler male, Greenwood Lake, MN

    male Mourning Warbler, MN

    Western Meadowlark, the songster of the open prairie

    a curious Kirtland's Warbler female near Grayling, Michigan