For anyone interested in breeding birds, a pair of eagles was doing courtship maneuvers just over and around black Dog lake this afternoon. I believe it may be the pair that uses the nest near the power plant that is visible from the observation platform at Old Cedar Ave. When viewed later from Black Dog Road, the nest appeared to have one "mature" head just showing above its rim.
Also present: a shrike at the west outlet, a pair of trumpeters and some gadwall on the west end of the lake; coots among the mallards, Canadas, and c. mergansers by the plant; and hooded as well as common mergansers on the river by the plant, along with a red-tailed hawk. Chet Myers mentioned a (lesser) scaup on the river, by the east outlet, though we missed that. However, we did find a brown creeper just east of the parking area over in Black Dog Park, not to mention the usual wb nuthatches, chickadees, and downies. Linda Whyte, with Jed Askari and Katie Burns ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
