Saturday 5/3/08 John Hockema & I saw a Northern Mockingbird fly across Hwy 56 at the western edge of Taopi, which is in the southeastern part of the county, about 15-20 miles from where there were sightings last month. The bird flew from the north side of the Hwy to the south, and landed in the sixth tree west of the classic green sign telling you that you have entered a new town in Minnesota, and in this case, the sign said Taopi. John and I showed up at 8:00 at Alex Watson's place, and enjoyed great views of his Summer Tanager. We then had a great morning in western Mower County birding with him, before we parted ways and John and I headed east. John and I had over 100 species on the day in Mower, and here are some other highlights: GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - 2 at Lyle Sewage Ponds LARK SPARROW - 1 at field adjacent to the parking lot at Hormel Nature Center/1 at Lake Louise State Park CAPE MAY WARBLER - Pond at Hormel Nature Center CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER - Hormel Nature Center BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1 at LeRoy sewage ponds PEREGRINE FALCON - Hormel Nature Center BROAD-WINGED HAWK - numerous today Dedrick Benz Winona, MN _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_052008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080504/f3d14d4b/attachment.html
