Hi I spent five hours at the dam. It won't be long before the walkway will be closed for two years on April 15th. I saw many species. On the Coon Rapids side I saw an immature bald eagle in a tree with a red tailed hawk. Then I saw pied billed grebes, horned grebe and eared grebe, thanks to someone with a great spotting scope. There were many scaup greater and lesser, and bufflehead, a few ruddy ducks still around, thousands of coots, ring necked ducks, another red tailed hawk, goldeneye, mallards, I did not see any red heads or canvasback but I'm pretty sure I saw a northern Shoveler. On the Brooklyn park side we saw our first Osprey back at the nest. There was a pair that looked like the same as last year and they were mating. The male was banded but I couldn't be sure of the band. I also saw a Merlin and several Golden Crowned Kinglets near the shore line. I bumped a flicker, my first of the year while getting photos of the kinglets. I saw another red tailed hawk on the old osprey platform. By the way on the Coon Rapids side of the dam there has been what looks like an injured Trumpeter swan for the last several days. He seems to be nursing his right wing and I have not seen him fly yet. 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
