A Great-tailed Grackle(male) was with flock of ~200 Common Grackles in a field
on the west side of Cty. Rd. 151 in southern Carver County this morning.
Luckily for me he spent quite a bit of time just posing in one spot giving me
good size comparisons. His bright yellow eyes and iridescent body really
stood out. The Grackles eventually moved away from the road further into the
fields. Also near that area was a large mixed flock of Ring-billed(didn't
count) and Franklin's Gulls(167)(Farmer was tilling the field which is what
probably attracted the gulls in the first place).
Other birds seen this morning
Carver Park
American Wigeon 13 (down from 82 earlier in the week though I didn't check one
location that probably had some)
Northern Shoveler 45
Ring-necked Duck 215 (most arrived between Thurs. evening and this morning)
Bufflehead 31
Hooded Merganser 1 (numbers down from Thursday. Canvasback, Redhead, and
Scaup(most of the Scaup had left before Thurs.) also departed between Thurs.
evening and this morning.)
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Wood Duck 2
Killdeer 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Fox, Song, Swamp, White-throated Sparrow, and Junco
Lake Waconia (Common Loons last seen on lake on Monday and last Horned Grebes
seen on Sunday)
American Coot 110
Ring-billed Gull (a few after many hundred roosted there overnight)
State Hwy. 284 south of Waconia
Cattle Egret 1
Salem Ave.
~1000 Red-winged Blackbird
Assumption Lake
Ruddy Duck ~20 (surprised to even see these there, as 6 trucks and a couple
boats of hunters were packing up when I got there. All other waterfowl that
had been on lakes open to hunting earlier in the week were gone)
Franklin's Gull 35
Yesterday at Rapids Lake MVNWR
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
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