I was at the Brownsville platform on Saturday p.m. and noted 203 Bald Eagles in one scan of the river and associated flats and I'm sure I undercounted. There were also 20,000+ coot, 2 black ducks, 800 swans (several thousand at the old platform a mile to the south), and tens of thousands of ducks. The refuge survey showed over a third of the world population of canvasbacks is on the river now between La Crosse and Rock Island, Illinois. I have a third hand account of a snowy owl seen last week near Reno in the lower Root River Valley, no other details. Bob Russell, Dakota County -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20081103/d02191ec/attachment.html
