We visited the Nelson Fen tonight in SW Olmsted to see if we would find any American Woodcock and we certainly weren't disappointed. Without leaving the parking area we heard/saw at least 6 or 7 birds. Two of the birds were visible on the ground along the mowed pathway that extends north from the east end of the parking lot. They were just peeting around 7:40pm but got into their aerial displays about 7:50pm. The Fen is located along Hwy 30 just to the east of the intersection with CR3 (map is on my website at: http://www.birding-minnesota.com/BOC-SW.htm ) Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in Southeast Minnesota ekblad at frontiernet.net http://www.Birding-Minnesota.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080405/7b85f46e/attachment-0001.html
