I may have checked the wrong patch of open water, or I may not have seen what you saw, but at 1:30 this afternoon, the only "different" bird I saw was a male Bufflehead.
Julian Sellers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Boyer" <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:19 AM Subject: [mou] Smew > Sir; > Would someone please check-out a patch of open water on the NE quadrant of > Lake Phalen in St. Paul. It is near the walking path. I am only a very > casual bird noticer. And there's a strange one there hanging out with the > mallards, geese and coot. When I look in my rather amateur bird book, the > only thing close is a smew, which seems most unlikely since the book says > it's very rare in the U.S. So what is it then? > Chuck Boyer > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net >

