Birded the county this weekend with Andrew Birch and Dale Yerger, including a big day on Saturday and a trip out on Leech Lake on Sunday. Still almost no songbird movement, although the weather was rough on Saturday. Only migrant warbler of the weekend was a Blackpoll at Kabekona Narrows on Sunday. Of interest was a Lark Sparrow at the Longville sewer ponds, and a Field Sparrow at Dry Sand WMA. Also at Dry Sand were two Baird's and one White-rumped Sandpiper. Good numbers of shorebirds were present on and around Pelican Island on Sunday, including 51 Black-bellied Plovers, 18 Ruddy Turnstones, and various others. Of note was a Marbled Godwit, a bird that has been strangely hard to find in Cass. Good birding!
Ben Wieland www.cassbirding.blogspot.com Deep Portage Learning Center 2197 Nature Center Dr. NW Hackensack, MN 56452 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
