Several brown creepers along both sides of the Mississippi River in Benton and Stearns Counties, near St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Sartell. Also found quite a few cedar waxwings and tons of robins, where ever I went. Two Cooper's hawks and one sharp-shined - all in Stearns County near the river/neighborhoods.
Two pairs of lesser scaup on the Miss. river by the old paper mill in Sartell. Many common goldeneyes and common mergansers as well. 3 eastern phoebes in Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud and Sartell. Northern cardinals singing up a storm throughout the area. Eastern meadowlark along Mayhew Lake Road - Benton County. Eastern bluebirds sitting by a nest box along CR 90 north of the St. Cloud airport. Rough-legged hawk in the same are as the bluebirds. And a very light red-tailed hawk near the airport - lots of white feathers throughout, and an almost pink tail instead of rusty. Still many juncos, a few song sparrows, and today my first fox sparrow of the year. Betsy Beneke St. Cloud, Benton County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
