In addition to the prairie birds trip, I also stopped at the Black Dog Fen in Burnsville at about 7:30pm on Sunday. I heard, but did not stop to find the Bell's Vireo. I stayed about a half hour and listened to the CHAT. It was singing softly, as if it was at the nest. Interesting, was the WOODCOCK that flash by in the late dusk as we stood in the parking lot.
On Friday, I found a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS on a pond in Champlin at about 112th and Xylon. Yesterday (Monday), I checked out woods below Shaar's Bluff off of Hillary Path, west of Hastings. I found a Great Horned Owl being harrassed by a Cooper's Hawk, who enlisted the support of a murder of crows. In the woods I found a Scarlet Tanager and Ovenbird. Today (Tuesday) I found a COMMON LOON on the Arbor Lake in Maple Grove off of Hemlock. There was also a Spotted Sandpiper there. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN sweston2 at comcast.net
