Trent Robbins, Andrew Krenz, Benji Inniger and I did a bi Hey birders, Trent Robbins, Andrew Krenz, Benji Inniger and I did a big day in Le Sueur County yesterday. We started at 12:45am and went until 9:00pm. We were blessed with 162 species by the end of the day which establishes a new record for the county.
Short summary: 13 waterfowl, 4 herons, 10 hawks/falcons, 15 shorebirds, 3 terns, 2 owls, 7 woodpeckers, 4 flycatchers, 5 vireos, 6 swallows, 5 thrushes, 22 warblers, 13 sparrows, 9 blackbirds, 3 finches. Highlights: Kentucky Warbler at Chamberlin Woods SNA. The bird was not too far from the entrance but was not vocalizing so it may have been a migrant. Greater White-fronted Goose on Eggert Lake Common Loon on Scotch Lake Horned Grebe on St. Thomas Marsh and Dog Lake Willet at previously posted location (CR165 and T-6 northwest of Waterville) Black-bellied Plover on a flooded field northwest of Lexington (340th St east of CR11) Upland Sandpiper in Kasota Prairie (south side of T-360/CR101) 2 Common Terns mixed in with Forster's at Fish Lake Pine Siskin and Red-breasted Nuthatch at Woodlawn Cemetery east of St. Peter Other: Waterville Sewage Ponds have gone from 3 ponds drawn down to only 1 so the shorebirding is not as great as it was on Wednesday. Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
