This morning at Carver Park Reserve, there was a stained adult Sandhill Crane calling in clear view from the Tamarack Bog boardwalk. Luckily, I remembered my camara today. I viewed him from the southside of the boardwalk. As far as I could tell, he was alone. He was fairly close to the northern end of the boardwalk(the boardwalk is a semicircle off of the main grass trail). I did not even attempt to go to that end, as I thought I might scare him. Other new birds for the year(for me) at Carver Park: Orange-crowned Warbler, Swamp Sparrow, and Field Sparrow The wetlands at the Chevalle neighborhood in Chaksa have quieted down quite a bit. There were lower numbers(compared to earlier in the week)of Ring-necked Ducks, Blue-winged Teal, Lesser Scaup(I didn't notice any Greater, but I didn't study many of the Scaup), Bufflehead, Pied-billed Grebe, and Coot. At Chaska Lake there were about 110 American White Pelican, a few Cormorant, Blue-winged Teal, and more Coot. A small number of swallows have returned to the lake including Tree, Barn, and Northern Rough-winged. There were no significant numbers of sparrows except for Song. John _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up?use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_packup_042008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080419/b325a90f/attachment.html
