Bonnie Mulligan, Charlie Greenman, Esther Gesick, Paul Egeland and I spent Friday through Sunday birding along the Minnesota River to parts of west-central Minnesota this past weekend. Some highlights:
Friday: Peregrine Falcon diving on Blue-winged Teal - Gaylord sewage Ponds (Sibley County) Merlin - patrolling the shorebird area along state highway 4 in Nicollet county Red-necked Phalaropes - Gaylord sewage Ponds Two Buff-breasted Sandpipers - Fairfax Sewage ponds in Renville county Saturday: "Blue" phased Snow Geese - One in Yellow Medicine county and two others at Salt Lake American Bittern - Lac Qui Parle county Sanderling & American Golden Plovers - Salt Lake Sunday (all the Big Stone NWR): Snowy Egret - On the shore of the MN River via the auto-tour One American Avocet One Black-bellied Plover Shorebirds are still in good numbers at Salt Lake and in the Big Stone NWR. The best shorebird viewing at the refuge is along a refuge access road south of Big Stone county road 21, just south and east of Odessa. We totaled 19 species of shorebirds over the course of these three days. Red-tailed Hawks, Cooper's Hawks and Northern Harriers were also plentiful throughout. Regards. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080914/2ddf1015/attachment.html
