Besides the 8 Cattle Egrets in Nobles County posted on mou-net last Friday, the May 27-28-29-30 Minn Birding Weekend in Nobles, Rock, and Pipestone counties turned up a few other species of note:
Gr White-fronted Goose - 2 late-lingering and apparently healthy individuals May 27 at the old Worthington sewage ponds, Nobles Co. Snow Goose - also unusually late: a blue-morph May 27 at the new Worthington sewage treatment plant; an injured white-morph May 27 just S of Worthington. Common Loon - May 28 at the large gravel pit ponds just S of Blue Mounds State Park, Rock Co. shorebirds - a few migrants still passing through, primarily White-rumped and Semipalmated sandpipers; also seen: Black-bellied Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Red-necked Phalarope. Lark Sparrow - May 29 in Luverne, Rock Co (just E of the Quality Inn). Blue Grosbeak - best views by the parking lot on the S side of Blue Mounds, and at Pipestone National Monument S of the visitors center. Eastern Meadowlark - singing males unexpectedly found at 2 sites (thanks to Brian Smith’s excellent hearing): May 27 in Adrian, Nobles Co (just E of the truck stop); May 29 at Pipestone National Monument (near the entrance gate). migrant passerines - several species still present, but only in low numbers; e.g., Olive-sided, Yellow-bellied and Alder flycatchers, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Swainson’s and Gray-cheeked thrushes, Tennessee, Mourning, Magnolia and Canada warblers, Lincoln’s and White-crowned sparrows. Kim R Eckert, Duluth http://www.mbwbirds.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
