Peg this is where the yellow heads live. I missed them last year.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Steve Weston <[email protected]> wrote: > Saturday was a beautiful spring day for birding. The birds were out and we > say many. While the 89 species found were down from last year's 100, it > was still birdy. And, Jen Vieth, Kevin Smith and the rest of the Carpenter > Nature Center volunteers put on an excellent program, which included field > trips, a great talk by Carrol Henderson on planting for birds, and a > contest by teams of young birders to ID the most birds. It was won by a > team, the Young Birders, who found 63 species. In last place was a very > respectable 7 species by a team whose members were no more than seven years > old. They saw more species, but these were the ones that they ID'd. They > missed the wrap up meeting, because they were taking naps. > > I didn't take notes on all that was found, but some of the finds included: > Shorebirds: not many, just 3 species (Killdeer, L. Yellowlegs (1), Snipe at > 180th St. Marsh > Rusty Blackbirds: a flock of about 20 singing (east of downtown Hastings) > Swamp, Song, White-throated, Field, Fox, Chipping, and Vesper Sparrows > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher > Hermit Thrush (one or two only) > Brown Creepers (lots) > Broad-winged Hawk > many flying Pelicans, Cormorants, and Turkey Vultures > E. Bluebirds > Warbles: 2 species - Black & White and Yellow-rumped > Phoebe - only flycatcher > > 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 > -- Halle O'Falvey 416 Arbor Street St. Paul MN 55102 www.halleofalvey.com 651-206-5054 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
