I continued my quest to find Pine Grosbeaks and Bohemian Waxwings on Tuesday.
By the way, in my note I sent on Monday I mentioned I saw a large flock of birds fly from Braham in Isanti County into Kanabec County but my editor deleted the name of the species and left "them" undefined. That was the location where I had my lone flock of Bohemian Waxwings on Monday. On Tuesday in Staples in Todd County I was checking previously reported locations of Pine Grosbeaks but was finding mostly stripped crab apple trees and no birds until I finally got to the last corner of town and located a group of 8 birds just south of the intersection of Kansas and Long Prairie Rd. I was out right after daybreak so I may have just missed finding birds that hadn't started moving around and feeding yet. In Hewitt, in the NW part of Todd, I found a flock of 20 Bohemian Waxwings on the north side of town at 5th Ave and Main. In Otter Tail County I found 10 Pine Grosbeaks in Deer Creek at 4th St and Merickel in the NW part of town. One showed up later at the more obvious group of crab apple trees on the south side of town. Further south in Parkers Prairie there was one Pine Grosbeak calling from the top of a spruce east of Dayton on Delaware. I was able to re-find a single Pine Grosbeak in Stearns County at the location that had been previously reported south of Holdingford. The bird was at the house on the west side of the road about half way between the two curves. I didn't see a fire number at that house but it was between 39238 and 39392. There is very little shoulder on the road at this location so be very careful. Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in SE Minnesota http://www.Birding-Minnesota.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
