Hi First of all I want to thank Conny Brunell for her report from yesterday on this area. She always does such a good job. My friend Russ and I went down this morning first of all to the Industrial park. We didn’t see too much the first time we were there, just a horned lark and some geese flying in the distance but they were too far off to id. They were flying towards Byllesby so we drove over there. I was surprised to find it mostly with open water. We saw many thousands of geese flying around the lake when we arrived. For the most part they were greater white fronted geese with some snow geese amongst them. I have a few photos that I will put the link on at the end of this. We also saw canada geese, a pair of northern pintail, scaup, canvasback, wood ducks and coots. On a power line near the cemetery we saw a kestrel then we drove to the landing on the other side of the lake but saw nothing. Next we went back to the industrial park and saw hooded mergansers, in the open water near the church and another horned lark. It was then that Russ spotted a meadowlark on a sign post. We photographed it the best that we could but he never gave us a front view. I cannot say if he is an eastern or a western meadowlark. I’ve never seen the western. We also saw a northern harrier flying by the pond at the cup de sac. We stopped at the 180th street marsh on the way home and saw only some coots, a muskrat and 3 red tailed hawks. Here is a link to a few photos from today. I wish they were better but i”m grateful to get what I got. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/13570514105/ Ron Taube Coon Rapids. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
