| Snowy Owl |
Polk County Snowy Owl
0.4 miles South of 118th Ave on NW 26th Street, which is East of Polk City
| 1/26/2012 |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
Mississippi River Lock & Dam No. 14
About six miles upriver from Bettendorf in Scott Co. The best waterfowl viewing is from the Illinois side, 1.5 miles downriver from I-80 along Ill. Hwy. 84, on the pier at Fisherman’s Corner South R.A. You can walk out the pier after parking. Gull viewing is good here, too, but probably best from the official L&D 14 park on the Iowa side. That park's entrance is about two miles south along U.S. 67 from I-80. You can walk in quite close to the lock, and there are backwaters at the park that often hold gulls as well.
| 1/26/2012 |
| Iceland Gull |
Mississippi River Lock & Dam No. 14
About six miles upriver from Bettendorf in Scott Co. The best waterfowl viewing is from the Illinois side, 1.5 miles downriver from I-80 along Ill. Hwy. 84, on the pier at Fisherman’s Corner South R.A. You can walk out the pier after parking. Gull viewing is good here, too, but probably best from the official L&D 14 park on the Iowa side. That park's entrance is about two miles south along U.S. 67 from I-80. You can walk in quite close to the lock, and there are backwaters at the park that often hold gulls as well.
| 1/26/2012 |
| Snowy Owl |
Linn County Snowy Owl
At the Eastern Iowa airport in Cedar Rapids: It was seen from Walford Road, about one-third mile west of 18th Street (just west of where Walford road makes a dip to the south and back)
| 1/21/2012 |