My sister, Lynn, and I went to Purgatory Creek Blind to see if there was much open water. Finally there is a significant enough area that has melted. Before we got to the blind we saw our first Eastern Phoebe just singing away along the creek. There were a few Tree Sparrows near the blind as well. At the blind, Lynn spotted a flock of around 20 Northern Pintails that flew overhead, descended towards us, and then flew off. I was able to get a great picture of them in flight. Also flying by was a flock of 30-40 Tundra Swans calling as they flew overhead. I believe there was another group of Tundra Swans that was flying even higher than this group, and there may have been another group that flew overhead earlier. I heard them but did not see them. A funny sight to see was a lone Canada Goose flying at the tail end of the Tundra Swan flock. Also at the blind Killdeer Great Blue Heron Trumpeter Swan Hooded Merganser Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Bufflehead Mallard Canada Geese There was a possible Goldeneye as well, but it was staying too far from our view. I really only viewed the white breast and dark head. There were gulls around. I am no expert when it comes to gulls, but I am fairly sure most(if not all) were Ring-billed. Spur of the moment mammal watching turned up a Mink that dove into the creek. John _________________________________________________________________ Test your Star IQ http://club.live.com/red_carpet_reveal.aspx?icid=redcarpet_HMTAGMAR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080330/8841d4eb/attachment.html
