Dinosaur PP
July Big Trip pt.3
50.7596° N, 111.4818° W
Bird nerds notes
After two nights in Cypress Hills Provincial Park we decided to finish our adventure with a single night in Dinosaur Provincial Park. We really enjoyed our visit but were happy for the shorter stay. The amount of mosquitoes in the campground were insane -- even wearing bug nets we still received loads of bites. As well, Vince also got warned by a rattlesnake! We had a few target birds on our list including cuckoos, brown thrashers, and burrowing owls. It looks like the burrowing owl is going to be a Bird Nerds 'hard target'!
Conditions
- July
- buggy
- celsius
First sightings (lifers) 6x
- Brown thrasher
- Eurasian-collard dove
- Lark sparrow
- Prairie falcon
- Rusty blackbird
- Violet-green swallow
More adventures
One of our favorite sightings on the trip was the lark sparrow -- they fit the area perfectly.
Yellow birds can be tricky because the female yellow warbler, Wilson's warbler and orange-crowned warbler all look similar.