Yesterday (Friday) I saw my first two Canada Goose broods of the year. Interestingly, they were on a small pond bordering the rail yards by highway 280.
Today, the warblers are interfering with my concentration on a project I have been working on pulling me outside for a walk around the yard. Warblers about the yard are mostly Yellow-rumps, but also included a couple of Ovenbirds, which were not around at all last weekend. I also heard an Oriole in the area. A strange bird for the middle of the day was the bat that was flying over the lake. I hoped it would come close enough to make an ID, but it moved away. My best guess was that it was a big brown. As it flew close to a tree with a couple of Crows, one gave chase, and the bat effortlessly side-stepped the attack. The Crow then flew to the water and plucked something from the surface. I then watched as a Red-winged Blackbird chased a Spotted Sandpiper (FOY) about the lake never more than six inches above the surface. 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
