I went out to look and/or listen for owls this morning at the Izaak Walton Wetland area in southwest Rochester (off of County Road 25, west of the Historical Society). No luck with owls, but I did happen upon at least 3 Woodcock, at least 2 of which displayed and all three were "peenting." One of them happened to land itself pretty close to the walking trail I was on at the end of one of its routines; I heard a thud, looked to my left, and got a brief glimpse before it took off. Pretty neat though! One of the birds was on an adjacent farm field, but two were within the wetland area. This went on from about 6:20 to 7:00 today. I may have had better luck viewing the displays from the road itself; from the trail I only saw a fraction of a second of a black dot in the sky, due to the tree cover. Also present here were Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Fox Sparrows, and more.
Kyle TePoel ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
