I went birding in Brainerd with a small crew on 4/12/2008. We were birding on private property (with permission), as well as checked some public spots in and around the area of about 5 miles around the Green Lantern Tavern. The snow had all melted prior to Thursday but during the storm they had over 20" of snow in some places. Despite the massive snow on the g our team had a GREAT birding experience.
We saw 23 species: Purple Finch Black-Capped Chickadee Red-Breasted Nuthatch Downy Woodpecker Dark-eyed Junco Rose-Breasted Grosbeak Sandhill Cranes American Crows Great Blue Heron Robins (large flocks) Mallards Hairy Woodpecker Ring Necked Ducks Wood Ducks Canada Goose Red Wing Black Bird (Sound only) Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay (Sound only) Tundra Swan Northern Flicker White-Breasted Nuthatch Merlin Rock Doves Among some of the cooler things we saw: #1: A pair of sandhill cranes doing their mating dance #2: A merlin hunting at a nearby feeder. I had never seen a group of nuthatches stay so still for so long #3: A migrating flock of water fowl which included a pair of tundra swans Will Matthews Business Analyst Front End Support Chanhassen Home Office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080414/328b48c1/attachment.html
