Hi everyone! What a great morning! Lots of new species, and they were very active and vocal today. Passerine highlights: Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Eastern Bluebird Rusty Blackbird Northern Flicker Common Grackle Red-winged Blackbirds and American Robins were everywhere! As were Dark-eyed Juncos and American Tree Sparrows. (They must be migrating through.) Even though Wells Lake didn't have much, I found a great variety of waterfowl around the county just generally driving around. Quite a few flooded fields held good groups of various dabblers and divers. Nothing in the goose department but Canadas, but in the typical duck department, our only misses were Ruddy Duck, American Wigeon, Greater Scaup and Redhead. Other birds of note were Sanhill Cranes, 5 Northern Harriers and a lone Gray Partridge. What a wonderfully long overdue day! Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
