Yard: Common Loon (calling flyover), Yellow-crowned Night Heron (adult landed in the top of a cottonwood in my yard) - I live in a valley in the driftless area 8 miles from the Mississippi, 20+ miles from the nearest lake and ½ mile from nearest tiny creek. Rusty Blackbirds, Swamp & Lincoln's Sparrows under my feeders (still no water). Kentucky Warbler (found a singing male in my back yard when I returned home from a successful trip to Wyalusing State Park that I made specifically to see my first ever of that species).
Parking Lot: Probable Smith's Longspur with a flock of Lapland Longspurs at a Blacksmith shop near Two Harbors, MN. I got out of my car and walked toward the shop. The flock of Longspurs landed between me and my car. I had no optics or camera in my hand but one of the birds was a very different looking and larger female longspur. Matched all the books but I only had a short look. Motel: Black-billed Cuckoo calling from a bush at the edge of a parking lot at a motel near Bar Harbor, ME. Clark's and Western Grebes seen while sitting on my bed and looking down out of my window at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. Was really startled when a tugboat went by within 20 yards a few minutes later!! (I was on the second floor and was at eye level with the captain). Laughed when a Sea Lion started barking from the water under the hotel. Work: Long-eared Owl, Whip-poor-Will, & Lark Sparrow Dan Jackson Chaseburg, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Near La Crosse) www.pbase.com/dejackson community.webshots.com/user/DanielEJackson ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
