After a few years absence (except for funerals) we're finally getting back to Minnesota for some BIRDING.
Would love some tips on hotspots or sought after birds. We have a copy of Kim Eckerts book. (If I can find it) Is there a new issue? LIFERS: Yellow Rail White-rumped Sandpiper Clay-colored Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow LeConte's Sparrow Blue-winged Warbler NEVER SEEN IN MINNESOTA Black-billed Cuckoo Boreal Owl Black-backed Woodpecker Boreal Chickadee Golden-winged Warbler Cerulean Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Rusty Blackbird COOL BIRDS WE HAVEN'T SEEN VERY OFTEN Great Gray Owl As always we're happy to help birders, especially Minnesotans, who visit our home areas -- Palo Alto & Lake Tahoe CA, & Tucson, AZ . We have nesting Elf Owls, Vermilion Flycatchers and Broad Billed Hummingbirds at our new Tucson home. We showed Dave Cahlander some cool birds in Palo Alto a few years ago. Dick Carlson "From" Minnesota, just temporarily living elsewhere for the last 39 years. Richard C. Carlson Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary Bureaucrat Part-time Economist Palo Alto & Lake Tahoe, CA & Tucson, AZ rcc...@pacbell.net Palo Alto: 650-949-9590 Tucson: 520-760-4935 Tahoe: 530-581-0624
