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After an absence of a couple of decades I decided to walk out to Fronte= nac Point, perhaps now one of the most overlooked sites in the state and mu= ch beloved by old-time birders back in the 1950's and 1960's. The cottonw= oods seemed much larger than I had remembered and the trail in better shape.= With water levels low the Frontenac Point projects well into Lake Pepin= and a small secondary point has developed to the north of the main point th= at also held some birds. On a cool, drizzly Sunday there were no other hi= kers besides Pete the dog and Linda the girlfriend. Although no rarities we= re seen there were 7 Caspian Terns at the point including two first-year birds, 2 Herring Gulls, 50+ pelicans, cormorants, geese, osprey, TVs, eagles, and a steady stream of swallows moving southward at about 20 a minute, mostly barns and trees with a few bank. Plan on spending a min= imum of two hours if you want to walk to the tip and bird along the way. Bo= b Russell= --0__=09BBFB75DFD84A3B8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFB75DFD84A3B Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline <html><body> <p>After an absence of a couple of decades I decided to walk out to Fro= ntenac Point, perhaps now one of the most overlooked sites in the state= and much beloved by old-time birders back in the 1950's and 1960's. T= he cottonwoods seemed much larger than I had remembered and the trail i= n better shape. With water levels low the Frontenac Point projects wel= l into Lake Pepin and a small secondary point has developed to the nort= h of the main point that also held some birds. On a cool, drizzly Sund= ay there were no other hikers besides Pete the dog and Linda the girlfr= iend. Although no rarities were seen there were 7 Caspian Terns at the= point including two first-year birds, 2 Herring Gulls, 50+ pelicans, c= ormorants, geese, osprey, TVs, eagles, and a steady stream of swallows = moving southward at about 20 a minute, mostly barns and trees with a fe= w bank. Plan on spending a minimum of two hours if you want to walk to= the tip and bird along the way. Bob Russell</body></html>= --0__=09BBFB75DFD84A3B8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFB75DFD84A3B--
