Besides the Common Gallinule in La Crescent reported on mou-net earlier today (from the frontage road on the E side of Hwy 61, turn E on Main St, cross the RR tracks, stop at the corner where the road turns left, and look S into the marsh), the Minn Birding Weekends (MBW) group found a few other birds of note in Fillmore & Houston Co’s Friday-Sunday, May 26-27-28.
In Fillmore Co on Friday: - late-lingering (apparently injured) Snow Goose on a farm pond SE of Spring Valley - Forster’s Tern at “Kapper’s” Ponds - at least 3 late migrant Olive-sided Flycatchers and 1 Philadelphia Vireo - 2 Acadian Flycatchers on the Sugar Camp Hollow Tr at Forestville State Park - singing Winter Wren on the same trail - 9 species of late spring migrant warblers, incl Mourning, N Parula, and Blackpoll And in Houston Co on Saturday/Sunday: - late-lingering Am Black Duck in a flooded field next to the Root R on Hwy 26 - Peregrine Falcon at the same location - at least 7 Acadian Flycatchers at Beaver Creek Valley State Park - Tufted Titmouse at Beaver Creek Valley and on Hillside Dr - 3-4 Louisiana Waterthrush at Beaver Creek Valley - 4 Cerulean Warblers: 1 at Beaver Creek Valley and 3 on Hillside Dr - Henslow’s Sparrow at Gordon Recreation Area on CR 2 Kim 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
