We started out the morning at the Bass Ponds with Gary Swanson’s weekly hike. We saw 41 species including green winged teals, quite a few, northern shovelers, golden crowned kinglets, a single Greater yellow legs, wilson snipe, 3 i think, an unusual juvenile bald eagle that had a lot of features one might associate with a golden. We saw also tree swallows, blue winged teal (foy for me), a red tailed hawk, a sandhill crane, fox , song and tree sparrows, hooded mergansers(2), turkey vultures,wood ducks,great blue heron, northern harrier.and some leopard frogs . After we left Gary he also found a long tailed Duck at the Bass Ponds. Then my wife and i and a friend went to lake Harriet where we saw Northern Shovelers, Gadwall, Red Breasted Mergansers and a group of 6-10 horned Grebes that we followed around for quite a while. Then someone reported seeing a common Loon in the Lake and we found that . So we had very fine birding day in such nice weather. I have posted some photos below on this link https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/with/25499601883/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/with/25499601883/> Ron Taube Coon Rapids