Connie Jo and I birdied for a few hours this afternoon near and around Lake Osakis, the south, west and northwest shorelines of which held thousands of waterfowl. Highlights included FOY western grebes, as well as large numbers of canvasback, many scaup (mostly lesser and a few greater), and a good assortment of bufflehead, redhead, gadwall, ring-necked, shovelers, wigeon, wood duck, mallards, blue-winged and green-winged teal. Of course, many Canada geese, pied-billed grebes and rafts of coot were also present. Our scoping and viewing were done both from the public landing in the town of Osakis and from County Road 10 north of town.
Other FOY birds were a pair of rusty blackbirds, a vesper sparrow, hermit thrush and yellow-bellied sapsucker, all viewed from County Highway 10. Scott Dirks Sent from my iPad ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
