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On Saturday, we headed to Old Cedar Bridge to try to find the Eastern Screech Owl, with no luck. We encountered several others on the same mission, also with no luck. As Chris F. noted, there was a lot of cardinal song. I did see a male Belted Kingfisher on a dead tree in the little pond north of the trail just west of the parking lot. As we had headed south in the morning, I thought I saw a Great Blue Heron flying west of Highway 101 in Rogers, so on our return we decided to check the rookery along the Mississippi, and found many GBHs occupying nests. The rookery can be observed from Wright Co. 42, just about one mile east of 101 in Otsego. Someone built a house right in front of the rookery area last year, so of course, be considerate when viewing. As we got closer to home, we passed close to the Crow River on Wright Co. 36 (again, maybe a quarter to half mile east of 101) and could see some waterfowl, so when I got home I walked down there. I found 6 - 8 hooded mergansers, 1 wood duck, and something else too far away to identify. It was swimming away from me, and appeared to have a dark head but white back and sides. As I walked home, there was a bald eagle soaring overhead, and when I arrived, my husband told me that our first robin had appeared, eating the old crabapples on the tree out front! Not a bad bird day, all in all! Kim -- Kimerly J. Wilcox, Ph.D. Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant Digital Media Center University of Minnesota Room 212 Walter Library 117 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-3528 fax 612-625-9302 --------------040809030901070100040209 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">On Saturday, we headed to Old Cedar Bridge to try to find the Eastern Screech Owl, with no luck. We encountered several others on the same mission, also with no luck. As Chris F. noted, there was a lot of cardinal song. I did see a male Belted Kingfisher on a dead tree in the little pond north of the trail just west of the parking lot. <br> <br> As we had headed south in the morning, I thought I saw a Great Blue Heron flying west of Highway 101 in Rogers, so on our return we decided to check the rookery along the Mississippi, and found many GBHs occupying nests. The rookery can be observed from Wright Co. 42, just about one mile east of 101 in Otsego. Someone built a house right in front of the rookery area last year, so of course, be considerate when viewing.<br> <br> As we got closer to home, we passed close to the Crow River on Wright Co. 36 (again, maybe a quarter to half mile east of 101) and could see some waterfowl, so when I got home I walked down there. I found 6 - 8 hooded mergansers, 1 wood duck, and something else too far away to identify. It was swimming away from me, and appeared to have a dark head but white back and sides.<br> <br> As I walked home, there was a bald eagle soaring overhead, and when I arrived, my husband told me that our first robin had appeared, eating the old crabapples on the tree out front!<br> <br> Not a bad bird day, all in all!<br> <br> Kim<br> </font> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Kimerly J. Wilcox, Ph.D. Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant Digital Media Center University of Minnesota Room 212 Walter Library 117 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-3528 fax 612-625-9302 </pre> </body> </html> --------------040809030901070100040209--
