Hi everyone, I spent most of the day birding with John & Chris Hockema today. Mostly in LeSueur County, but some in Rice as well. From the 90 species we saw, some were pretty good:
LeSueur - Trumpeter Swan (2 @ Scotch Lake) Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe (both grebes @ Scotch Lake) Red-shouldered Hawk (juvenile near the entrance to Sakatah State Park) Merlin (first chasing an Osprey then a Belted Kingfisher at the Waterville Fish Hatchery Ponds) Olive-sided Flycatcher (2 locations) Acadian Flycatcher (at least 1 singing away at Sakatah S.P.) Philadelphia Vireo (2 @ Sakatah S.P.) 10 species of warbler; nothing surprising. Rice - Caspian Tern (5 @ Cody Lake) Forsters Tern (1 @ Cody Lake) Short-billed Dowitcher (1 @ Cody Lake) American Golden Plover (38 @ Wagner Sod Farm along Hwy. 60, east of Faribault.) Very fun day! Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
