I observed the female-type White-winged Scoter off of Boom Island Park (Minneapolis) at 7:15pm. At one point, a boat came in and scared the scaup and scoter. They flew from the north tip of Nicollet Island north towards the Plymouth Avenue bridge, but within a minute the scoter returned near its original spot, about 50 feet offshore. The bird was still there when I left at 7:30pm. About 7 other birders were there.
Thank you Doug Kieser for sharing Abigail Anderson's find, and thank you to Doug, Rebecca Field, Jeanne Tanamachi, and Rob Daves for keeping me updated on the scoter. I checked a couple of Golden Valley (also Hennepin Co.) ponds this evening in hopes of spotting a Black-crowned Night Heron. I didn't find one, but there were 5 Great Egrets sporting their lovely breeding plumage. Good birding! Alyssa DeRubeis Lake Mills, IA ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
