I wonder if Conny and I overlapped at Wood Lake today--I walked the west and south perimeter trail during lunch hour, and missed Fox Sparrow, but got to hear some tentative White-throated Sparrow songs. I saw a (different?) Great Blue Heron fly in at about 12:40 PM.
But my bird of the day was a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, by far the earliest I've had one, along the southernmost chain-link fence trail between Bryant and Dupont at noon. There were many juncos flitting about, and I was checking out every motion--and this one was something different. It was feeding very low off the ground (I saw a few gnat-type insects, ladybugs, and flies), flicking its wings, and staying put long enough for me to see its un-striped face with the white eye ring and scarlet crown. It didn't stay long--a couple of the sparring juncos flushed it up and it flew southwest towards the houses. I lost sight of it, though I tried for another half an hour. Chris ===== Chris Mansfield Richfield, Hennepin Co. MN [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
