Elizabetha Nearing South Dakota

Elizabetha continued to fly almost due north across the Great Plains yesterday, covering 535 km (332 mi). She traveled across the remainder of Kansas and much of Nebraska, putting in about 27 km (16 mi) south of the South Dakota border.

She roosted in a very unusual area. GE shows a pattern of beautiful and unique dendritic drainages full of forests and draining into the Niobara River, the same river that Island Girl visited earlier in her migration. What a gorgeous location.

She seems to have chosen to sleep in a coniferous tree on a steep slope back up in the valley.

What a variety of roosting sites. Antennas, tropical forests, dry pine forests, Atacama desert hillsides. Simply amazing.