A history of mining has certainly had an impact on the character of the birdlife around Hibbing. My map showed much of the area as "spoiled" or "distorted". But these areas are still worth visiting. I saw some interesting birds there late last week.
There were 1-2 whip-poor-wills calling along Ansley Rd.,just west of town, and 2 Virginia Rails calling in the cattail marshes along Ansley. What surprised me more was the vesper sparrow - not as common in northeast MN - singing and feeding in a 1 -2 acre dirt/gravel/grass yard of an abandoned factory, on the road south of Morton Mine Lake. -Eric ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
