Spent some time driving around/getting to know Minneapolis area lakes this morning/early afternoon. Visited Lakes Calhoun and Harriet, lots of ducks and very few gulls (nothing other than species previously reported today). Last stops were at both ends of Black Dog Road. Several hundred ducks on the Eagan/Silver Bells Road side, mostly Common Mergansers, and not much else, besides a few American Tree Sparrows. The other side of Black Dog (exit off of 35W), our last stop, had a small but diverse gathering of gulls at the spillway/parking lot on the MN River. Several dozen Herring Gulls, a handful of Ring-billed Gulls, at least two Thayer's Gulls (one very cooperative, picture perfect adult) and one juvenile Glaucous Gull, slightly darker and smaller than the "average" Glaucous Gull. Gulls were viewed at this location from around 1230-115.
Andy Forbes, Burnsville, Dakota Cty. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
