(between the Lyndale Ave. boat ramp and the mouth of 9-Mile Creek--Mpls./Bloomington)
under the highway bridge: a pair of hooded mergansers on or over the wetland lake bisected by the causeway leading to 9-Mile Creek Park: a bufflehead female, several wood ducks, an egret, a kingfisher, tree swallows, song sparrows, cowbirds, red-wing blackbirds, 3 immature bald eagles on the trail: mature bald eagle on the the nest, juncos, brown creepers, yellow-rumped warbler (heard), possible kinglets (heard) Linda Whyte

