October 2, 3, 4, 2010 Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter Southern Minnesota Birding Trip
Our group has been bird watching in Waseca, Faribault and Martin counties the last few days. With the following results: October 2, 7:30 - 11:30 am Waseca county 43 species Bonaparte's Gull - Goose Lake Blue-headed Vireo - Courthouse County Park Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Harris's Sparrow October 3, 7:30 am - 7:00 pm Faribault County 75 species Ross's Goose - The city of Blue Earth's, Sewage ponds - one bird was present in the morning. Cackling Goose - Well's Lake Sewage ponds - 20+, 5:00 pm. Western Grebe - Minnesota Lake - 50+, including lots of young birds. Peregrine Falcon American Golden-Plover - CR 9, 1.5 miles West of the town of Elmore, on the South shore of a large flooded field. Red-breasted Nuthatch - CR 9, 1.25 miles West of the town of Elmore, in a Cemetery on the North side of the road. Gray Catbird Tennessee, Orange-crowned, Nashville, Yellow-rumped, Palm and Common Yellow-throat, Warblers. Fox Sparrow October 4, 7:30 am - 8:30 pm Martin & Faribault Counties 70 species Sharp-shinned Hawk Peregrine Falcon American Golden Plover - 270th Ave, .25 miles South of 60th Street Lesser Yellowlegs - Same location on 270th Ave. Dunlin - Same location on 270th Ave. Eastern Screech-Owl - Faribault county American Pipit - Same location on 270th Ave. Gray Catbird Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped, Palm, Blackpoll, Common Yellowthroat, Warblers. Savannah Sparrow - There was a huge movement of this species in the morning today, with over 500 birds counted in one Soy Bean field alone. Le Conte's Sparrow - 60th Street, .5 miles East of 290th Ave. We observed 10 + LeConte's Sparrow's in a patch of Big Blue Stem grass, on the North side of 60th Street from 7:30 to 8:30 am. We returned in the afternoon and at 5:00 pm, there were only a couple Savannah Sparrows present at this location. Nelson's Sparrow - 3 +, These birds were observed in the same location as the LeConte's Sparrows. This location and the area, a quarter mile West had a large number of Sparrows. The birds we counted, were observed within 30 feet of our vehicle. So my guess is there were many more, in the field on the South side of the road. Bobolink - 60th Street, .25 miles East of 290th Ave. Craig Mandel [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Minnetonka, Hennepin County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
