On the east river road trail in Minneapolis, about 1/4 of a mile south from the Franklin Ave bridge there were 3 common mergansers (2 males, 1 female), 4 mallards and 9 Canada geese in an inlet on the Mississippi. 1/2 mile north of the Franklin Ave bridge, on the same trail, there were well over 1,000 American crows in the trees on either side of the river and in trees and on buildings on the U of M campus. I could only see a certain section of the river, so I would say there were probably more, but there were between 1,000-1,500 in my immediate surroundings. Sightings between 5:35-5:50 pm on February 24, 2016.
-- Molly E. Tuma *University of Minnesota, Twin Cities* *College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences* *Undergraduate-Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology* *Minor-Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management* *Technician-Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (USGS)* *[email protected] <[email protected]>* *(612)-481-9998* ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
