Hello Birders Between this morning and this afternoon I spent four hours at the dam. This morning I saw four or five northern shovelers upstream from the walkway and a belted kingfisher flew by me twenty feet away as well as several hooded mergansers . There have been many goldeneye along the river above and below the walkway. I have not seen a Barrows but one was reported last week. I also saw many ring necked ducks today and there were at least five Great Blue Heron sitting in the rookery and a red tailed hawk in a nest there. I saw common mergansers mostly downstream and Trumpeter swans up stream and downs stream. This afternoon I was looking to see if the Osprey was back at the platform but there has been no sign of any yet . I talked to a few birder friends and they haven't seen any either yet but any day. Also this afternoon I saw many many waterfowl upstream including what I reported earlier and at least two Redheads and three or four Canvasbacks and some fellow birders saw Pine Siskins this morning they said. That's all for now. Ron Taube Coon Rapids ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
