Fillmore At least 1500 Canada Geese moving in various places, 9 Sandhill Cranes in flocks of Canadas, 30 Tundra Swans on 121st Ave just south of 200th St., both Eastern and Western meadowlarks singing, Long-eared Owl in Beaver Creek WMA (migrant as this bird not here last weekend, probably gone in a day or so), best bird in county was a Loggerhead Shrike carefully studied, as expected it to be a northern, on 121st Ave at 190th St., our earliest date ever although have seen in March before.
Mower Excellent flooded field on Cty Rd 25 about a mile north of Cty Rd 2 or about 6 miles north of Austin, in field were 125 While-fronted Geese, 3 Ross's Geese, 9 Snow Geese, 90 plus Tundra Swans, uncounted 100 plus Canada Geese and at least 10 Cackling Geese, and none were more than 80 yards from the car, also 70 Tundra Swan were seen between Taopi and LeRoy in southeast Mower Cty. Steele Flooding of the Straight River complex on Cty Rd 45, a couple of miles north of State 30, has produces huge numbers of all kinds of waterfowl, also check SE 143rd St east of Cty 45 and SW 128 St west of Cty 45, at least 2000 were ducks including nearly every normal species, and very large numbers (probably in excess of 2000 or more) on the ground and flying above of Tundra Swans, White-fronted, Canada, Cackling, and Ross's geese (only species not seen were Snow Geese.) A family group of Trumpeter Swans were also present here. I consider this speces unusual, but getting more common) in most of southern Minnesota. Dennis and Barbara Martin Shorewood, 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
