We spent a night in Lake Shetek S.P. from Sunday, May 15 to Monday, May 16 and took two extended walks--an evening walk along the lake through moist woods, then past a pond and through a prairie; then an early morning walk all around Loon Island (no loons there; got the name via a mix-up with cormorants). We counted over 50 species, most notably: blue-winged teal, lesser scaup, American white pelican, double-crested cormorant, sora (a beautiful male in full view), American coot, lesser yellowlegs, spotted sandpiper, FOY Eastern wood-pewee, great crested flycatcher, FOY Eastern kingbird, FOY warbling vireo, tree and N. rough-winged swallow, house wren, Eastern bluebird, FOY Swainson's thrush (lots of them) and at least one gray-cheeked thrush, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow warbler (lots), American Redstart, some other warbler (Nashville?), chipping and white-throated sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak, FOY Bobolink, Baltimore oriole (lots), plus the regulars. Wonderful dawn concert!
On the way there and back (Hwy. 14) we saw lots of yellow-headed blackbirds (FOY) in the cattails along the road. Sue Nevin St. Paul, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
