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I took my Mother back to Cottonwood today and although she is now in assisted living and I do not have the great yard to bird in I can still check out Sham Lake. For a reason I cannot explain, this small lake has always attracted unusual and rare birds. Today there was just a small amount of open water but almost every duck and merganser that you would look for in western MN was there plus Ring-billed and Herring gulls and three Great Blue Herons. While watching all of these I noted a large Grackle in the cattails along the shore on the north side of Lyon Co. 10. It gave me an excellent view at a range of about 25 yards. It was a male Great-tailed Grackle. It worked along the small point and then flew to the Southeast across the road and kept going. Sham lake is just about a half mile NE of Cottonwood. The lake can be viewed on the west from MN highway 23 and on the south from CO 10. -------------------------------1112062743 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>I took my Mother back to Cottonwood today and although she is now in=20 assisted living and I do not have the great yard to bird in I can still= =20 check out Sham Lake. For a reason I cannot explain, this small lake has alwa= ys=20 attracted unusual and rare birds. Today there was just a small amount of ope= n=20 water but almost every duck and merganser that you would look for in western= MN=20 was there plus Ring-billed and Herring gulls and three Great Blue Herons. Wh= ile=20 watching all of these I noted a large Grackle in the cattails along the shor= e on=20 the north side of Lyon Co. 10. It gave me an excellent view at a range of ab= out=20 25 yards. It was a male Great-tailed Grackle. It worked along the small poin= t=20 and then flew to the Southeast across the road and kept going. Sham lake is=20= just=20 about a half mile NE of Cottonwood. The lake can be viewed on the west = from=20 MN highway 23 and on the south from CO 10.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1112062743--
