With the (relatively) warm weather and safe driving, there was no resisting the urge to bird "the Bog," resulting in a one-day, solo Brrr-dathon and a follow-up trip with birding buddies yesterday. Both days were fun and productive:
Ravens, many throughout Black-capped Chickadees (many) Boreal Chickadees (3, at the Admiral Road feeders) Red-breasted Nuthatches, several White-breasted Nuthatches (3 at feeders) Pine Grosbeaks (many, at feeders and various sites) Evening Grosbeaks (perhaps 15, at feeders on Blue spruce Road) White-winged Crossbills ( a flock feeding along 133, the main road into Meadowlands, and also a flock on Owl Ave.) Common Redpoll (hordes of them, at feeders and on roads) Pine Siskin, (likewise as above) Magpie, 1 (perched off hwy 7 at the Sax intersection) Ruffed Grouse, 1 (foraging in a tree on 133 at sunset) Great-gray Owl,1 (perched and hunting from a snag on the south side of 133 a couple of miles west of the power-line crossing, and across from a log-arched gate; seen at 7:30 AM by two of our buddies, and we saw it at 4:30 PM) Linda Whyte ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
