My wife and I spent a long weekend in North Dakota - great birding! This is my first trip report - all suggestions appreciated.
Veagle
A good start to the trip Veagle. I visited the Prairie Potholes of North Dakota in June last year and it's one of the best places I've ever been birding, lots of birds and no birders! It must be one of America's best kept birding secrets as we were at Lostwood NWR on a beautiful Sunday in early June, prime time for birding, and there was just one other car there. I guess it's just a long way from any of the major US population centres and doesn't have spectacular scenery to attract many tourists (althought the Badlands in the west are impressive).
I look forward to reading the remainder of your report to see if you managed to find the speciality birds such as Baird's Sparrow and Sprague's Pipit. It's essential to know the song of these two, especially the former, as it is extremely secretive and must be almost impossible to see if not singing.
As for the format of the trip report, it looks good to me, and it's a good idea to put the names of birds in bold as you have done.
The attached file is the next installment on our trip to North Dakota.