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10/9/03 Spent the day birding in Pennington and Polk County. Observed two Surf Scoters at the Thief River Sewage Ponds in Pennington County and found a single Ross's Goose in with 1000s of waterfowl at the East Grand Forks Sewage Ponds in Polk County. I also observed several small flocks Gray Partridge in Pennington County, one was at the Thief River Sewage Ponds and the other just South of Thief River Falls along Hyw 32. There were lots of Canada Geese and American Pipits at the Crookston Sewage Ponds and several 100 shorebirds at the American Crystal ponds which are next to the Crookston Ponds. You need to view through a fence, but the variety of shorebirds was nice. Still a strong push of Sparrows as well with nice numbers of Fox Sparrows observed in several locations. Here were some of the species seen today. @ Eared Grebe @ Snow Goose @ Ross's Goose - East Grand Forks Sewage Ponds @ Greater Scaup - Thief River Falls Sewage Ponds @ Surf Scoter - Thief River Falls Sewage Ponds @ Gray Partridge @ 12 Species of shorebirds at the American Crystal Ponds in Crookston. Including both Yellowlegs, Least, Baird's, Pectoral and Stilt Sandpipers, and American Golden, Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers. @ Black-billed Magpie @ American Pipit - Seen at all the Sewage Ponds and also in severl wet fields. @ 10 species of Sparrow, with growing numbers of American Tree Sparrow being observed. @ Brewers Blackbirds in numerous locations, but no Rusty Blackbirds. Craig Mandel - [email protected] - Minnetonka, MN -------------------------------1065795347 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>10/9/03</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Spent the day birding in Pennington and Polk County. Observed two= Surf Scoters at the Thief River Sewage Ponds in Pennington County and found= a single Ross's Goose in with 1000s of waterfowl at the East Grand Forks Se= wage Ponds in Polk County. I also observed several small flo= cks Gray Partridge in Pennington County, one was at the Thief River Sew= age Ponds and the other just South of Thief River Falls along Hyw 32. =20= There were lots of Canada Geese and American Pipits at the Crookston Sewage=20= Ponds and several 100 shorebirds at the American Crystal ponds which are nex= t to the Crookston Ponds. You need to view through a fence, but the va= riety of shorebirds was nice. Still a strong push of Sparrows as well=20= with nice numbers of Fox Sparrows observed in several locations. Here=20= were some of the species seen today.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>@ Eared Grebe</DIV> <DIV>@ Snow Goose</DIV> <DIV>@ Ross's Goose - East Grand Forks Sewage Ponds</DIV> <DIV>@ Greater Scaup - Thief River Falls Sewage Ponds</DIV> <DIV>@ Surf Scoter - Thief River Falls Sewage Ponds</DIV> <DIV>@ Gray Partridge</DIV> <DIV>@ 12 Species of shorebirds at the American Crystal Ponds in Crooks= ton. Including both Yellowlegs, Least, Baird's, Pectoral and Stil= t Sandpipers, and American Golden, Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers.</= DIV> <DIV>@ Black-billed Magpie</DIV> <DIV>@ American Pipit - Seen at all the Sewage Ponds and also in severl wet=20= fields.</DIV> <DIV>@ 10 species of Sparrow, with growing numbers of American Tree Sparrow=20= being observed.</DIV> <DIV>@ Brewers Blackbirds in numerous locations, but no Rusty Blackbirds.</D= IV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=3D0 face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=3D"10"= >Craig Mandel - [email protected] - Minnetonka, MN </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTM= L> -------------------------------1065795347--
