Greetings: Dave Bartkey and I birded Rice County this afternoon. First we checked the Wagner turf farm, eat of Faribult at Ibsen and State Highway 60. May be 30 Killdeer today whereas yesterday more than 100 Killdeer were seen. From there we went to Cannon City to check Crystal Lake. Nothing spectacular there. Then west on Highw 29 to Highway 3, north to highway 9 and west to Highway 46 and north to County Highway 60. There at 120th Street at a housing development, Circle Lake, we saw more than 75 Blue Winged Teal. American Pelicans, Great Blue Heron, Ring-billed Gulls. From there we drove north to Millersburg, on Highway 1, and then west to Highway 4 and north to Highway 59 and west to Cody Lake. This was our best birding. There were more than 40 Franklin Gulls, D.C. Cormorants, Great Egret, Forster's Tern, Stilt Sandpiper, Sanderling, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper. For the day we saw 26 species Rev. Forest V. Strnad Faribault, MN.
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