Adding to the list of Red Crossbill sightings, Jim Palmer and I had two along the east side of Greenleaf Lake (SW of Montgomery) this morning. They were not feeding, but merely passing through. They alighted briefly atop a deciduous tree and then took off again to the north. We were out of the car looking at Rusty Blackbirds at the time and otherwise would probably have missed them.
In addition to the Rusty Blackbirds in Le Sueur County mentioned above, we also came across two large flocks, mixed in with other blackbird species, in western Rice County. Add to that a huge flock (over 500 birds) of Lapland Longspurs feeding in the fields along 201st Ave just south of Gorman Lake (Le Sueur), with at least one Snow Bunting and one Horned Lark in the mix; and a dark-morph Rough-legged Hawk near Cody Lake (western Rice), and it was a good morning. Gerry Hoekstra Northfield ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
