Birded along the dirt road Zachary Lane just south of 69th Avenue North on the west side of Eagle Lake which is just south of I-694 and just west of HW 169 in Maple Grove. Forty-four species in an hour and a half. Limited calls but lots of wetlands foraging, mid-lake courtships, tree courtships, and mid-lake breeding of the Red Necked Grebes. Well worth the crawling pace to just stand and wait for something to move and then to sit on a bench and watch the rafts of water birds in Eagle Lake. At last, it feels like spring.
Mourning Doves Red Necked Grebes Red Breasted Merganzers (courtship and breeding) Horned Grebes Eared Grebes Loons Franklin Gulls Swamp Sparrows Fox Sparrows House Wrens Yellow Rumped Warblers Black and White Warblers RC Kinglets Tennessee Warblers Nashville Warblers Northern Waterthrush Chickadees Crows Brown-Headed Cowbirds Red Winged Blackbirds Ring-Billed Gulls Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Robins White Breasted Nuthatches Mallards Coots Lesser Scaups White-Throated Sparrows American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrows Goldfinches Hairy Woodpeckers Downy Woodpeckers (courtship and nest making) Common Terns Buffleheads DC Cormorants Pied Billed Grebes Great Blue Heron Wood Ducks Ruddy Ducks House Finches Hermit Thrushes Brown Creeper Cardinals (courtship) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
