The 5th Annual Great Minnesota River Birding Day is only one month away. It is shaping up to be the best we have had so far which is saying a lot since last year we had over 120 participants, including 8 Japanese birders from the Osaka Wild Bird Society. Those participants identified 179 species, an amazing 104 species in Faribault County alone. Please join us on Saturday, September 18th for this event. We especially need birders for the more remote areas of the Minnesota River Valley Watershed like Pope, Stevens, Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Lac Qui Parle and Yellow Medicine Counties. You can bird individually or in teams and as much or as little as you want that day. There will be rallies at the Ney Center in Henderson from 2-4PM and at Memorial Park in Shakopee from 2:30-8:00PM. The rally in Shakopee is being held in partnership with The Friends of the Minnesota Valley and it is their 2nd Annual Grassroots Gathering. All of this is free and open to the public. If you plan to bird with us that day, please contact Bob Williams at bxwilli...@cbburnet.com or at 612-728-2232. Attendance at the rallies is optional, but please send your species lists for that day to Bob to be added to the final compilation. Results will be posted at the website of the Minnesota River Valley Birding Trail(www.birdingtrail.org). Help us celebrate the Minnesota River Valley, one of our state's great natural resources, by doing what we all enjoy!
