Five Greater, two Lesser Yellowlegs at Belle Plain, no shorebirds at Le
Sueur, St. Peter or Nicollet Ponds. Only Pied-Billed Grebes (no other Grebes)
at
the south end of Swan Lake. One Yellow Headed Blackbird at Swan. At Red Rock
and
Jeffers I saw mostly Meadowlarks, Ring-Necked Pheasants and Vesper Sparrows.
(I almost turned a chestnut-less Vesper into a first-year Smith's Longspur,
but I finally gave up.) A beautiful day but slow birding.
John Ellis, St. Paul
