Hi everyone, On a tip from Gene Bauer last night, I took off birding on my lunch break at work today hoping for some Greater White-fronted Geese that he saw yesterday. Gene indicated that they were in an area south of Union Lake off CR 46, in an area known as Heath Creek. The geese were still present at noon and I counted at least 54 of them, but there were undoubtedly more as the bank of Heath Creek hid a lot of birds from the road. Heath Creek is just south of where CR 46 & CR 59 intersect. CR 46 runs parallel to I-35 on the west side.
Also on CR 46 on the west side, a couple of miles south of here, and about 100 yards south of where CR 1 crosses CR 46 (CR 1 is the Dundas exit off of I-35) is an area known as the "Horse Pasture" around here. In the field adjacent to the wetland, there is some flooding and it was full of nice dabblers today- Wigeon, Pintail, GW Teal, Shovelers & Gadwall. I guess the pintail have been hanging around for three days or more. I also saw my first, second, third & fourth Song Sparrows of the year today! I did not re-locate the Ross' Goose. Good birding, Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN screechowl at charter.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080327/988d68f3/attachment.html
