Monday July 14 we set out to visit Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge in Cayuga North Dakota. It was an early start leaving home at 4am arriving at the refuge around 8:30.

While visiting the refuge we saw baby Mallards, Song Sparrows, American Robins, Eastern Kingbird, Vesper Sparrow, American White Pelicans, Tree Swallows, Yellow Warblers with baby in tow, female Pheasant with at least 5 babies, female Northern Shoveler, male and female Mallards, Killdeer, Goldfinches, male Pheasant, male Orchard Oriole, Double-Crested Cormorant, White Sulphur Butterfly, Marbled Godwit, Willet, Lesser Yellowlegs, Red-tailed Hawk, Cliff Swallows, female Saffron-winged Meadowhawk, Northern Pearly-eye Butterfly, Twelve-spotted Skimmer dragonfly, female White-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly, Virginia Ctenucha Moth, male White-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly, Chipping Sparrow, Clover Looper moth, American Avocet (the species we set out looking for), Gadwall, Whitetail Deer fawns, Great Blue Herron, Canadian Geese, Common Wood-Nymph butterfly, Little Wood Satyr butterfly, Eastern Wood-Peewee, Great Egret, and a female Northern Pintail.

It was a very long and windy day, almost cold for July, but fun none the less. Can't wait til our next adventure.

Karla and Aaron