I had given up birding this morning given the grim conditions, so was startled when running around Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis after 5:00 to find birds littering the southwest corner of the lake and surrounding lawns. (I didn't see the report by Scott Loss until later.) Birds feeding on the grass at close distances included a Northern Parula and Blackburnian among 6 species of warblers, and in the lake 5 Canvasback and 8 Ruddy Ducks, plus a Red-necked Grebe among the Horned and Pied-billed. This area was protected from the stiff winds, and there's nothing to eat in the trees...
Stephen Greenfield 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
