Participants on the Blue Earth, Brown, and Nicollet MOU trip this past
weekend found a composite total of 151 species. Here are the highlights:
Saturday in Nicollet County
-Western Grebes on Swan Lake
-Black-crowned Night-Heron at Nicollet WMA
-Dunlins and White-rumped Sandpipers at Nicollet WMA
-Caspian Tern at Swan Lake
-Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos at Seven-Mile Creek County Park
- excellent looks at Yellow-billed pair near the second bridge going
west from the parking lot on trail 1
-Olive-sided, Yellow-bellied, and Alder Flycatchers (latter two singing)
at Seven-Mile Creek
-Western Kingbird along CR 62 / 506th St.
-Veery and Wood Thrush at Seven-Mile Creek
-Connecticut Warbler at Seven-Mile Creek - EXCELLENT looks by all
-Mourning and Canada Warblers at Seven-Mile Creek
-Lark Sparrows at the gravel pits along 506th St.
-Dickcissel singing along CR 62 / 506th St.
Saturday in Blue Earth County
-Western Grebes on Perch Lake
-Peregrine Falcon flying over east side of Cobb River WPA
-American Golden-Plover, Hudsonian Godwits, White-rumped Sandpipers, and
Dunlins at Cobb River WPA
-Franklin's Gull and Common Tern at Cobb River WPA
Sunday in Blue Earth County
-Kentucky, Mourning, and Blue-winged Warbler at Williams Nature Center
Sunday in Brown County
-Gray Partridge northwest of Sleepy Eye
-Eared Grebes at Sleepy Eye sewage ponds
-Sharp-shinned Hawk along CR 10
-Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings, White-rumped Sandpipers, Dunlins,
Wilson's and Red-necked Phalaropes at Sleepy Eye sewage ponds
-Common Terns at Sleepy Eye sewage ponds
-Eurasian Collared-Doves in both Comfrey and New Ulm
-Wood Thrush along CR 10
-Cerulean, Mourning, and Canada Warblers along CR 10
-Scarlet Tanager along CR 10
-Henslow's Sparrow northeast of Comfrey
Some of the group also relocated two Prothonotary Warblers near the
Traverse Des Sioux Treaty Center in St. Peter late Sunday afternoon.
Bob Dunlap, Nicollet County
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Bob Dunlap
Naturalist, Linnaeus Arboretum
Manager, Nobel Hall Greenhouse
Gustavus Adolphus College
800 West College Ave.
Saint Peter, MN 56082
507-933-7199
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