I went to 180th Street marsh this morning with my two-year-old daughter and my visiting mother to look for the Cattle Egrets and whatever else we could find. Despite the sunny weather it was quite chilly with the snow and wind so I wasn't able to scan as well as I would have liked. I did not find the Cattle Egrets and two other people that were looking also came up empty. Nice finds were a flock of Bonaparte's Gulls that flew by and a hunting Merlin that tried to take a bird very nearby. I did not see the Canvasback or the Wilson's Phalarope that I had seen on Sunday but I did see a pair of Wood Ducks that I had not seen then. In the town of Vermillion there were a pair of Eurasian Collared-Doves and there was a flooded field just west of town that contained many ducks and shorebirds but I was not able to look at length because my daughter is not very patient when the car stops and she is in her car seat. The highlight of the morning was definitely a flock of breeding plumaged Lapland Longspurs that were feeding on 190th St. just east of Hwy. 52. I had never seen them in their alternate plumage before and it was quite striking! Jason Caddy Minneapolis [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
