We were presently surprised Sunday afternoon to find a Yellow-billed Cuckoo along the river trail at Spring Lake Park's archery area. It was silent, but luckily we saw it fly into a tree where it stayed long enough for us to get good looks. We looked for the Prothonotary Warbler reported from Etters Bottoms without success. The wind perhaps was keeping it down and quiet. Thanks to Jim Otto for posting the Western Kingbird for me. It was totally unexpected! It was west of 130th Av. on 260th St. by less than .1 mile in Goodhue Cty. This is just west of Welch and is near the Dakota border. It was hawking insects from a wire (electric?) fence in the company of it's Eastern Kingbird cousin. I stopped at Lake Byllesby's west end and found mud flats much smaller than previously, but still extensive enough to host shore birds. There were over a dozen Dunlins and three or so Sanderlings. Linda Sparling Hennepin County ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070521/6c46e445/attachment.html
