Walked the bluff of the Mississippi Gorge from Ford Pkwy past Hidden Falls Park this morning and saw ubiquitous American Robins and numerous Northern Cardinals and Black-capped Chickadees, nine Double-crested Cormorants sunning on a wall by the Ford Dam, a Blue Jay, a mature Bald Eagle, two Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 24 Yellow-rumped Warblers, two Brown-headed Cowbirds, 12 Dark-eyed Junkos, a Red-bellied Woodpecker, four Downy Woodpeckers, two Hairy Woodpeckers, an American Tree Sparrow, 3 Song Sparrows, a Chipping Sparrow, an Eastern Phoebe, a Brown Creeper, and 4 White-breasted Nuthatches near the falls. Missed a pair of raptors, one chasing the other (might have been Peregrines, I suppose, but I didn’t really see enough as they flew away from me).
This afternoon at Como Park, saw 5 Lesser Scaups, 4 Horned Grebes, and a pair of Wood Ducks in Lake Como; a Mallard in the Frog Pond near the Conservatory; and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet on a fence at the Wolf exhibit in the zoo (did this in reverse order, i.e., zoo first to lake). Bill Kahn Minneapolis ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
