It was a banner day for Horned Grebes in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co. I started counting HOGR and RNGR daily at the end of March on Minneapolis Lakes Harriet, Calhoun, and Nokomis it was a fun way to start off each morning. I enjoyed watching the numbers fluctuate and continue to rise each day. This morning I found that those migrants had burst at the seems overnight and the total of HOGR for these 3 lakes were 1913. Shortly after sunrise I started at Nokomis which held the highest count of 882 spread out in large rafts across the lake, what a spectacular sight that was. There also was 1 Red-necked and 2 Pied-billed in the mix.
Second place went to Harriet with a total of 844 - HOGR, and Calhoun only had 187. With such a short time to enjoy these handsome passing migrants here in the metro this was a fun highlight. Each lake was scoped several times, and numbers were tallied by counting each individual head. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Co. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
