I was out at the Bass Ponds yesterday afternoon, and gosh I wish I had seen those Eared Grebes. I did see what I thought were buffleheads, mergansers, male and female of both the common and hooded species, along with lesser scaups, one pair of green wing teals (on Long Meadow Lake), many American Coots, and more mallards than ten days ago along with Canada geese, belted kingfishers again, red winged black birds (no females yet), chipping and song sparrows (both were relatively silent, unlike song sparrows a while back), black capped chickadees, a really big female wild turkey, an immature bald eagle, tree swallows (I think), and a few white breasted nuthatches and downy woodpeckers as I was walking near the ravine east of Old Shakopee Rd. I heard a blue jay or two. Ubiquitous American robins and northern cardinals were calling, but I didn’t bother looking for them. There were also gulls, but I’m not good with them, yet. Oh, and a great blue heron on the small pond with the big culvert leading to Hogback Pond. No swans of any kind, unlike time I saw nearly a dozen trumpeters ten days back while looking for mutes someone told me about. Spring certainly seems to have sprung, but some birds regret it given the snow and temps, I guess. I’ll be out looking for those grebes soon. I meant to go to the old cedar bridge and further, but my cell with field guides went dead and so did I to some extent. Damn tech. Damn me. :-)
Bill Kahn Bad birder in Minneapolis P.S. No anhinga yet. Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 10, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Doug Kieser <chew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently six near breeding-plumaged Eared Grebes on Hogback Pond, Bass > Ponds, Bloomington. > Yes, Eared, not Horned. > > Doug Kieser > Minneapolis > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
