Today my mom, Mary Kroll, and I birded central Minnesota. We stopped up at Hamden Slough and found one of the Moorhens in the previously reported area. The next lake as you drive north on the left has been drawn down and held hundreds of shorebirds. Mostly Yellowlegs, but there was a single Ruddy Turnstone and several Pectoral Sandpipers.
On the way home we stopped by the Bah Lakes WPA area. We went to the previously reported pond where the im. Little Blue Heron was found. Since it wasn't reported yesterday we didn't have high hopes, but when we arrived there was the im. and an adult! The im was hanging around the adult the entire time, and after about 30 minutes they flew off together at about 3 P.M. Also we met Dan and Sandy Thimgan and we told them about the adult Little Blue Heron, which they observed until they flew, and they relocated the 20+ Cattle Egrets, but they were north of the intersection of Grant County Rd 54 and CR19. They were sitting in a tree across a pond on the east side of the road just north of Olsons Bay Road. They were flying around a lot, and were seen in general around the Bah Lakes WPA flying over. Ben Fritchman _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
