Rare June Birding Day Along Platte and Polk Grove
A late May to early June Nebraska birding outing tracks sightings around Polk Cemetery and the Platte valley. Species include brown thrasher, indigo bunting possibly, scarlet tanager, bank swallows, cardinals, cuckoo, gold finches, bobolink and crested flycatcher with house sparrows, blue jays, grackles and red-wing blackbirds noted. The group encounters a high Platte River stage and visits a sandpit lake with Wayne Tyler’s brush clearing plans.
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Polk Cemetery
Polk
Lee Morris
Platte
Baltimore
Platte Valley
Covenant Cedars Camp
Wooden River Bridge
Wayne Tyler
Local Community Visitors and Family Gatherings Report
Residents and guests in Williams ton and nearby towns visit relatives celebrate anniversaries attend reunions and socialize. The record lists numerous individuals from Stromsburg Lincoln York and Greeley Colorado with stays and visits at homes of Gustafson Lott Aker Naslund and Carlson among others along with a wedding anniversary celebration and a class reunion event.
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Darwin Newton
Williamston
North Carolina
Margaret Lott
Duane Newton
Omaha
Rudolph Gustafson
Esther Peterson
Harlan Peterson
Nola Gustafson
Nora Gustafson
Dale Lindburg
Maurice Lindburg, Jr
Stromsburg
P. W
Elmer Naslund
James Brazda
Wilbur
Brazda’s
Alfred Brejcha
Robert Brazda
Rudolf Homolka
Darrel Miller
Doug
Lawrence, Kans
Harold Carlson
Elwin Johnson
Greeley
Colo
Birds Sightings Along Ditch At Platte River
Observers noted yellow warblers at a water ditch with cedar waxwings and vireos. A buzzing river roar punctuated the day as they tallied forty birds during supper with Bee and Swede.
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Bee
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Lind
Lee
Nebraska
Kortum
Platte River
K-N
Raska Natural
Irvin Anderson
Dwight Burney
Luella Smith
Central City
Leslie Adelson
York
Ernest Donelson
Mmnes
Elsie Burgeson
Anna and
Esther Appleton
Ruth Bills
Purina
Purina Research
Chas. Pfizer & Co
Polk Grain
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