After taking in an hour of a church service this afternoo Hey birders, After taking in an hour of a church service this afternoon, the family accompanied me down to the Lake Crystal lakes to see if there were any waterfowl. While the only goose we saw was a few scattered Canadas, there were lots of ducks: Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal, Canvasback, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, and Ruddy Duck.
Other firsts for the year: American Pipit (scared up by the kids picking up aluminum cans alongside the road), Turkey Vulture, Common Grackle, Song Sparrow, American Coot. Other nice birds: Killdeer, Cooper's Hawk, Lapland Longspur (flock of about 200+). Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
