Busy Day at Pickerel Lake: Much of the waterfowl is located at the far end of the lake from the parking area, requiring some hiking or a scope for viewing. Ice coverage has gone from approx 80% on Tues. to 40% today. One item of interest- goose in an owl/eagle nest. Hopefully just checking out the nest. Otherwise those gosling are in for a 20 ft. drop when they hatch. American Crows-75 on the ice socializing. Canada Geese-approx. 50. Cackling Geese-6 Mallards-18 RWBB-13 Ring-necked Ducks-6 Coots-8 Gulls-15 (sleeping Herring or ring-billed I believe) Bald Eagle-1 Common Merganser-6 Hooded Merganser-7 Wood Duck-5 Gadwall-2 Finch(sp.?)-4 house or purple, moving quickly in the tree-tops. Sparrows (many flying between cattails and trees)-Song and possibly something else. My sparrow ID skills are admittedly basic.
Seth Hayden Ramsey County St. Paul, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
