I went to Tamarack Nature Center tonight in search of woodcocks. I got there at 6pm and watched a couple of tom turkeys sparing for a while. I walked over to the wetland between the woods west of the visitor center and I35E and spotted a great horned owl in an evergreen. I walked around to get a better view of the owl and two owls flew out, one perching at the top of a tamarack giving a nice look at the horns highlighted against the sky.
I waited there until almost dark and decided to head back toward the car. I was just entering the grassy area behind the visitor center and a winnowing snipe flew overhead. I walked a little further and starting at least two woodcocks peenting, in the grassy field not far from the visitor center. I listened to them for 10 minutes from about 7:45 until almost 8pm. Neat. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
