Birders, Late report here but on the way home from Saturday's MRVAC trip to Hok-Si La I stopped at 180th Street marsh and got an unexpected lifer:
Gray Partridge - a pair were skirting the W. side of the Southern water area. Those late female Ruddy ducks were there too though I didn't see the odd colored patch Chris F. mentioned. (I didn't spend that long watching them once I saw the partridge.) Also nice were the toads that were calling continuously while I was there. 140th yielded a few shorebirds: (along w/ expected summer residents) Semipalmated plover Killdeer Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper 140th is almost completely dried up at this point and looks really sad. I wonder what will become of it since the new drainage system was put in. Along Conley Ave. I missed the Mockingbird but did notice Bank swallows are using the dirt pile on the East side of the road. Along Blaine Ave I found: Rose Breasted grosbeaks right by the road between 155th and 160? -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan on St. Paul's Westside 651-308-0234 cell "A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070507/269954dc/attachment-0001.html
