This morning I was surprised to hear and then see a single Lapland Longspur fly over at the public beach on the northwest side of White Bear Lake. Usually I don't find longspurs in the southern half of the state until October, but with what seems to be an early fall for a lot of migrants I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The Nelson's Sparrows appear to have finally departed the beach, but there was a nonbreeding-plumaged American Golden-Plover with several Killdeer on the shore further northeast from the beach. Also, at nearby Tamarack Nature Center I found an early Harris's Sparrow between the prairie and the western side of Tamarack Lake.
Bob Dunlap -- Robert Dunlap Graduate Research Assistant Natural Resources Science and Management University of Minnesota Hodson Hall 1980 Folwell Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 Email: dunla...@umn.edu ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
