*Dakota County Park Miesville Ravine: * Birders! Despite winter's prolonged grip, migrants are still arriving!
Come bird with MOU trip leader Kevin Smith at Miesville Ravine on*Saturday, April 13 * to look for early migrants at the park. The group will meet me at 8:00 am at the south parking lot by the Cannon River. No park sticker is required for Dakota County Parks. Drive to this part of the park by taking 280th Street a little over 4 miles east off of Hwy 20(Cannon Falls Blvd). The tour will start in the deciduous forest along the Cannon River & Trout Brook. Then check out at least one native prairie area and the edge habitat. Target species expected include early season migrants like Ruby & Golden-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebe, Hermit Thrush and Yellow-rumped Warbler are good possibilities in the lowland forest. Wood Duck & Hooded Merganser are likely in the streams. The edges along the prairies we are hopeful that we can find several species of migratory sparrows along with the expected Song & Chipping. If interested, please contact me by email to ask questions or just let me know you will be there. Contacting me beforehand is not required. ( [email protected]) I will be there even if it rains. After birding at Miesville Ravine we may stop in Cannon Falls for lunch on the way to check for waterfowl or shorebirds at the western end of Lake Byllesby. (a scope is very helpful here) -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan Saint Paul's Westside ---- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -* Leo Tolstoy* A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. - *Lucius Annaeus Seneca* ---- ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
