DIY Birdingat Mahlstedt Ranch | Seclusion in the Badlands

This is a DIY bird package. We will direct you to areas of specific interest to you. Minimal driving on established roads. This allows you access to our private lands. Please bring enough food and drink. Price is per person for 1 day. Groups can be accommodated. Viewing ends at sundown. 

Birds found on our ranch during the point count surveys:

American Robin, Bank Swallow, Black-billed Magpie, Blue-winged Teal, Brown Thrasher, Canvasback, Eared Grebe, Eastern Kingbird, Field Sparrow, Gadwall, Grasshopper Sparrow, Gray Catbird, Horned Lark, Killdeer, Long-billed Curlew, Mallard, Mourning Dove, Northern Pintail, Red-winged Blackbird, Ring-necked Pheasant, Unidentified Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, and Western Meadowlark.

Additional bird species observed during ranch surveys but not at designated counts:

American Crow, Brewer’s Blackbird, Brewer’s Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, Clay-colored Sparrow, Common Grackle, European Starling, Lark Bunting, Lark Sparrow, Northern Flicker, Spotted Towhee, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Swainson’s Hawk, Upland Sandpiper, Willet, Wilson’s Snip, and Wild Turkey.

Tana will direct guests who book our birding package to a specific area of the ranch. The package is not available during the hunting season.