The Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive is open daylight hours, and will remain open until we get our first snowfall, or December 31 - whichever comes first.
Headquarters/Office will be closed both Thanksgiving Day and Friday - the day after. Hiking Trails and the wildlife drive are open. Information leaflets can be found at refuge entrances on CR's 9, 5 & 3) Birds seen on the refuge, or in the area this week include: Sandhill Crane (population continues to drop daily, probably only several hundred birds left in the area) Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk (wildlife drive) Trumpeter Swan (St. Francis River) Canada Goose Northern Shrike (HQ and Brande Road - just west and north of HQ) American Kestrel Red & white-winged Crossbills (Blue Hill Trail & Ann Lake Campground road, south & east of Orrock) American Tree Sparrow (wildlife drive and at HQ feeder) Common Redpoll (Mahnomen Trail) Snow Bunting (CRs 9, 5 and 3) *Regular winter feeder birds, including a female cardinal (don't see cardinals here very often) Betsy Beneke Sherburne NWR ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
