Joel Dunette and I ventured northward, and here were our findings: Attempted to look for the G-C Sparrow from 9:35am-10:30am without luck. Since there was virtually no bird life at Brad Snelling's feeders, we decided to walk around the neighborhood a bit, where we were treated with 1 Am. Robin, C. Redpolls, Common Ravens, and even a W-W Crossbill seperated from her flock (which was the only one we found today.) As Don Kienholz mentioned earlier, there are better feeders eastward with better brush coverage. For those planning to look for it later on, I would suggest looking around the neighborhood.
We relocated the Barrow's Goldeneye** (same site as yesterday), although he easily got lost with the thick Common Goldeneye flock. Common and Red-breasted** Mergansers also present. All of these birds were seen in Sax Zim bog, at all of the same locations from recently observations: 2 Northern Hawk Owls** male B-B Woopecker** male Am. Three-toed Woodpecker** 3 B-B Magpies 2 Boreal Chickadees (Admiral Rd feeder) 4 Pine Grosbeaks (Nichols Rd) 3 N. Shrikes We missed out on Great Gray Owls (and we were looking thouroughly, twice along Nichlos Rd.), Gray Jays, and Evening Grosbeaks. ** I got some decent photos. E-mail me if you wish to view them. I may put one up eventually on the Showcase. Good winter birding! Alyssa DeRubeis Golden Valley, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
