I also saw a few bobolinks at this site. I believe 2 immature (white on the back of their head and neck) and a male and female (he is more light yellow on the back of his head). I have a picture, although not real good (too far away) if anyone is interested.
Also a few cedar waxwings... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna Morphique" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:01 PM Subject: [mou] RE: [mnbird] Dakota Co. (long & probably too chatty) > how do you dispense the grape jelly to the Orioles? Is there a special > feeder? > > >>From: "Steve Weston" <[email protected]> >>To: "mnbird" <[email protected]>,"Mou-net" <[email protected]> >>Subject: [mnbird] Dakota Co. (long & probably too chatty) >>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:13:58 -0500 >> >>On Saturday, about noon, being in Lakeville, I went to check out the >>prairie near Soberg WMA southwest of CR70 and I-35. I had visited this >>spot about a week ago, and had thought I heard the Henslows singing >>intermittently a couple of times, but found it hard to separate the song >>out from the background activity of the Sedge Wrens. This time a Henslows >>was singing consistently and the song was unmistakable, east of the >>intersection and south of the road, although I never did see the bird. >> >>If you haven't gotten your fix of Bobolinks for the year, they were in my >>face most of the time, perching on the fence and scolding me. This time >>the males only approached me, with the females in the background scurrying >>for food. I suspect that the nest near the road that last week I was too >>close to, has fledged. Last week I found Dickcissels, food in bill, on >>the fence. This week they seemed less intent on scrounging, and were >>actually singing on the wire. Other birds there included a brown >>Thrasher, noisy, but concealed Sedge Wrens all over, and a Marsh Wren. >>Also found an Eyed Brown Butterfly. I talked with one of the locals and >>found out that the owners do not hay these fields. >> >>In another marsh in Lakeville I found a Spotted Sandpiper that I suspect >>was trying to draw me away from its nest. >> >>Around the yard on Quiggley Lake the Barred Owls have fledged three, who >>are every night begging right outside our window. The sound is closest to >>the scream of Red-tailed Hawk. Last night they were practicing adult >>calls. The Baltimore Orioles are scarfing down the grape jelly. Yesterday >>we had four females/immatures and Cherie tells me that there are two >>males. Hairy and Downies with young are visiting the suet and the >>chickadees with their darker young ones are constantly parading through >>the sunflower feeder. We have one Woody female that hangs around the >>yard, but I hope she is not the one that led between eleven and fourteen >>little ones out of one of our boxes. Our lake is historically quite >>inhospitable to your Woodies, although I have never figured out why they >>fare so much more poorly than the Mallards. >> >>I hope Cherie's list is not so long that I can't get out. >> >>Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN >>[email protected] >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>mnbird mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
