(Posted by Jason Frank <jmfran...@gmail.com> via moumn.org) Ron Erpelding and I were able to relocate the Western Wood Pewee at Big Stone NWR at 9:50 this morning. It is in the woods along the river, just over the bridge at the start of the auto tour. We walked the one-way road through the woods and after half an hour, we played some songs but initially received no response. Just as we were getting in the car to drive around the loop, it started to sing, and did so for about 5 minutes.
The male Blue Grosbeak was refound as well, singing from the shrubby embankment behind the outhouses at the auto tour entrance. Other species of note were American Redstarts, Yellow-Throated Vireos, Yellow Warblers, Warbling Vireos, Eastern Wood Peewees, White-Breasted Nuthatches, Chickadees, Orchard Orioles, Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Field Sparrow, Song Sparrows, Black Terns, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagles, Pied-Billed Grebes, Tree, Barn, Northern Rough-Winged, and Cliff Swallows, Ring-Billed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Nighthawk, Sora, Wood Ducks, Ruddy Ducks, Cormorants, and Pelicans. And lots of Coots. Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs are showing up on mudflats around Yellow Bank Hills, near Nassau. I forgot to mention that I'd heard a Common Gallinule yesterday, calling in alarm from the reeds at Pool 7. Jason Frank Lac qui Parle ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
