Vic Lewis, Bill Brown, and I found 63 species this morning driving to Dakota County and birding there for 3 hours.
At the Archery Unit we had great views of stunning Nashville and black-and-white warblers, redstarts, lots of Baltimore orioles and peewees, several blue-bray gnatcatchers, and a couple of noisy juvenile bald eagles. At the Jirik sod farm and other fields nearby we had least sandpipers, killdeer, Baird's sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers. Near Randolph we had an ammodramus sparrow which I believe was a Henslow's, but I am not sure. It didn't have as much color as Sibley or Nat. Geo. for Henslow's, but it was at the same location where I saw the same or a similar bird a week ago which called like a Henslow's to my ear. Today's bird was silent. I will show a photo to more expert birders for another opinion. Beautiful morning. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
