I spent Saturday birding in Winona, Wabasha, and Dakota counties. The best birds of the day included a Black-billed Cuckoo (south of Lake City) and several calling Whip-poor-wills near Frontenac. I had a Whip-poor-will in a valley west of Lake City that I often find them during the summer. The other two locations (west and north of Frontenac Station) are locations that I find them only during migration. We had lots of good birds for the Breeding Bird Atlas.
The Whip-poor-wills were heard during my Frog & Toad survey. This was probably the worst F&T survey run that I have had in the approximately ten years I have done this. I had more birds singing at night (8) than frogs and toads (3). Those are not the number of species, but the number of individuals. Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN [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
