I looked for the Townsend's Solitaire today around 10:00am-12:15pm with no luck. It was by no means a waste of time because there was a lot of other birds on the lakes. The cedars did have groups of Cedar Waxwings eating berries but I could not pick out the solitaire. All of the other birds in the area were very active and fun to watch. Here are some of the other birds present: Gadwall- 2 Canvasback- several Common Goldeneye- several Ring-necked Duck- several hundred Hooded Merganser- over 100 I observed many with fish in their bills. Bald Eagle- 1 juvenile Red-winged Blackbird- 1 Common Loon- 2 Foraging together and one of them called. Trumpeter Swan- 12 I'm assuming that they were this species. The bill on the juvenile birds had a black base. American Coot- 1 Good Birding, Jason Caddy South Minneapolis [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
