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Went west on Sunday and MOnday. Migration was still in progress. Shorebirds were still at the Dawson sewagesponds, White rumps, Wilsons Phalarope, and Semi sandpiper. A half mile sounth in a small wet spot had a Turnstone. Only other shorebird was a Lesser Yellowlegs flying down old highway 23 in Cottonwood. Flycatchers were still migrating, had a Yellow-bellied flycatcher at a farm grove north of Cottonwood in Yellow Medicine County. Had several flocks of Eastern Kingbirds numbering from 3 to 5. I also did a night ride along the Minnesota river. I drove over 35 miles in Yellow Medicine, Redwood, and Renville counties stopping every 1/2 mile. I was disappointed in that All I heard from 9:30 to 12:00a were 1 Woodcock in Yellow Medicine 3 Whip-poor-wills in Renville about 6 Short-billed Marsh wrens spread over all three counties 3 Yellowthroats 2 Long-billed Marsh wrens in Redwood co and one strange sounding bird that was quite loud but I have no idea what it might have been. The night was calm but the temperature dropped quickly so can not explain the fact I heard no Owls, Rails, or bitterns. Even the Yellowheaded Blackbids were silent in Marshes I new they are in. Paul Egeland Bloomington -------------------------------1117582057 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>Went west on Sunday and MOnday. Migration was still in progress. Shoreb= irds=20 were still at the Dawson sewagesponds, White rumps, Wilsons Phalarope, and S= emi=20 sandpiper. A half mile sounth in a small wet spot had a Turnstone. Only othe= r=20 shorebird was a Lesser Yellowlegs flying down old highway 23 in=20 Cottonwood.</DIV> <DIV>Flycatchers were still migrating, had a Yellow-bellied flycatcher at a=20= farm=20 grove north of Cottonwood in Yellow Medicine County. Had several flocks of=20 Eastern Kingbirds numbering from 3 to 5. </DIV> <DIV>I also did a night ride along the Minnesota river. I drove over 35 mile= s in=20 Yellow Medicine, Redwood, and Renville counties stopping every 1/2 mile. I w= as=20 disappointed in that All I heard from 9:30 to 12:00a were </DIV> <DIV>1 Woodcock in Yellow Medicine</DIV> <DIV>3 Whip-poor-wills in Renville</DIV> <DIV>about 6 Short-billed Marsh wrens spread over all three counties</DIV> <DIV>3 Yellowthroats</DIV> <DIV>2 Long-billed Marsh wrens in Redwood co</DIV> <DIV>and one strange sounding bird that was quite loud but I have no idea wh= at=20 it might have been.</DIV> <DIV>The night was calm but the temperature dropped quickly so can not expla= in=20 the fact I heard no Owls, Rails, or bitterns. Even the Yellowheaded Blackbid= s=20 were silent in Marshes I new they are in.</DIV> <DIV>Paul Egeland</DIV> <DIV>Bloomington</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1117582057--