Hi all Spent a couple of days at my sisters house in northern Chisago County, north of Rush City. There is a very small wetland in the field near her house that had Sora, Virginia Rail, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Marsh Wren and best of all a Wilson's Phalarope with 2 chicks. I was envious of Conny when she saw the ones here in Aitkin Co and just thrilled to find them yesterday near Rush City - they do look like little balls of golden fluff! The pair of Virginia Rails were on the edge of the road and acting like they had chicks there too, but when they saw me they went back into the ditch but kept calling and acting agitated, so I just left them alone. She also has a pair of Brown Thrashers nesting in the evergreen wind row along the edge of her yard. So cool. Cindy Butler usually in Tamarack, east Aitkin Co.
