I made a quick loop around the Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive yesterday morning - things were VERY quiet! Only birds still singing or hollering were belted kingfisher, eastern wood-pewee, eastern kingbird, crow, sedge wren, gray catbird, cedar waxwing, eastern towhee, song sparrow, red-winged blackbird, and goldfinch.
There were a few warblers trickling through in the woodland area. I saw a total of 52 species. No swallows. Very few sparrows. Lots of green herons, ducks and quite a few shorebirds - on both Stickney and Nelson Pools. Nelson Pool is in drawdown. There were only a few species, but lots of individuals, including semipalmated plover, killdeer, greater and lesser yellowlegs, solitary, least and pectoral sandpipers, and Wilson's snipe. It was a beautiful morning, clear, sunny and cool. Biting fly population is declining rapidly - hooray! Betsy Beneke Sherburne, Crane Meadows and Rice Lake NWRs ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
