Thanks to Janice Dunlap's post about the mudflats along Flying Cloud Dr in the
Minnesota River Valley, I made a stop there both yesterday and today. Both
days there were Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, and Pectoral Sandpiper
on the mudflats of Rice Lake. Today I may have picked out a distant Dunlin,
but that very low confidence observation may have been wishful thinking on my
part in the poor lighting as well as the even lower confidence Baird's.
Otherwise there were Blue and Green-winged Teal, Mallard, Shoveler,
Ring-billed, and Bonaparte's Gull. Rice Lake is in both Hennepin and Carver
County. Initially everything was on the Carver side of the lake, but some
did fly to the Hennepin side by the time I left. Other parts of the county
turned up Common and Red-breasted Merganser on Lake Waconia and Golden-crowned
and Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Carver Park. One of the Carver Park Barred Owls
finally showed himself to me for the first time this year.
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