Hello birders, Out and about birding the metro with Diane today yielded some early winter birds and late fall migrants:
*Snow Buntings* - 1 in Ramsey (Red Rock Road), 5 in Washington (100th. St) and 15 in Dakota County (180th st. Marsh). Wood Lake Nature Center had: *Song sparrow* - 1 near feeders (but not AT the feeder) *Fox sparrow*s - today and yesterday *Tree sparrow * - only 1 Vadnais lake was also productive: *Common Loon* - 15 yds from car! *Ring-necked Ducks* - at least *200 * *Common Goldeneye *- about 40 *Redhead *- 2 *Double-CRESTED cormorant *- 3 *Wood Ducks* - about a half dozen *Hooded Merganser *- at least a dozen. 180th Street marsh also yielded a small blackbird flock with *Brown-headed Cowbird* - 1 male *Rusty Blackbird *- 1 female *Red-winged Blackbirds* (males & females) *Starlings* - about 3 in this flock. Several small murmurations also seen elsewhere today. -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan Saint Paul's Westside ---- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -* Leo Tolstoy* A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. - *Lucius Annaeus Seneca* ---- ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
