5/10/12 While leading a Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter field trip in Fillmore county today and yesterday, we observed a good number of migrants. Here are a few of the species we have observed: Hooded Merganser - Female with 8 youngCommon Loon - Kappers' ponds, 1.5 miles South of Cherry Grove. The bird was in the Eastern pond.Great Egret - Goethite WMASandhill Crane - A pair of Sandhill Cranes were observed at Goethite WMA.Vireo's - Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, Warbling, Philadelphia and Red-eyed.Swainson's ThrushWood ThrushWarblers - 20 species, including Northern Waterthrush, Golden-winged, Blue-winged, Cape May, Northern Parula, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Black-throated Green.Most of the Warblers and Vireo's were observed along CR 12, Killdeer Road, Lonesome road and in Forestville State park, from 6:00 am until 2:00 pm. Craig MandelMinnetonka, Hennepin [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
