The Western Wood-Pewee at Buffalo River State Park in Clay Co. continues: I was there between 5:40 and 8:15 AM this morning, and must have heard the bird 150 times. It's a good thing, too, because yesterday someone said to me, "Dude, stay away from the King Rail site because you're obviously bad luck."
So, after leaving Clay Co. I *did* go to Grant Co. and the North Ottawa Impoundment, and, as was reported by Randy Frederickson earlier today, the King Rail was pretty cooperative, at least for a while; also present were the two Black-necked Stilts, which are a pair and appear to be nesting in the southernmost B pool - they engaged in a protracted distraction display with a Great Egret that approached too closely. (At the North Ottawa Impoundment, you can think of the pools as being arranged in columns that run from north to south. The eastern column consists of the A pools, the western column consists of the C pools, and the middle column is made up of the B pools. Actually, calling those units "pools" is a bit confusing, as some of them are mostly dry.) Phil Chu Department of Biology St. John's University Collegeville, MN 56321 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
