I spent most of today birding in Winona County with Lorraine Kilmartin completing a CBC route. We found a lingering song sparrow and handful of eastern bluebirds. A flock of common redpolls was exciting for us, as they were Lorraine's first. Within the flock a single pale male caught my eye being lighter, finer streaking around the flanks, and shorter bill. The red wash was prominent and I missed the rump in flight however....and I left that observation as an interesting redpoll.
After completing the CBC route I check along the river and in town, observing the lingering immature Black-crowned Night Heron in Winona and a White-winged Scoter moved to the Wabasha county side of Minneiska since first seeing it earlier this week. A photo from yesterday can be seen on the Winona Bird Club's Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Winona-Bird-Club/374787112614417> page. -- Malcolm Gold (Stockton, Winona County) http://mcmdgold.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
