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I birded along the mudflat/pond in the General Mills Nature Preserve in = Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. from 7:30-8:15. Of course, the most abundant = shorebird was the KILLDEER (including a baby, very cute!) However, there = were also 4-5 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS throughout the mudflat. I also found a = single SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, I don't know why it was all alone. On the = west side of the mudflat, there was a pair of (lesbian?) female HOODED = MERGANSERS. There were also two families of Mallards. There was a pair = of GREAT EGRETS (perhaps nesting.) Watching over all the commotion was a = RED-TAILED HAWK, which I never saw leave his perch. I saw a pair of = CEDAR WAXWINGS, and heard a WARBLING VIREO (and maybe a Red-eyed Vireo, = too.) If anyone wants directions, please e-mail me. Good birding! Alyssa DeRubeis Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C68A73.2D9A0AE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 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=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I birded along the mudflat/pond in the = General=20 Mills Nature Preserve in Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. from = 7:30-8:15. Of=20 course, the most abundant shorebird was the KILLDEER (including a baby, = very=20 cute!) However, there were also 4-5 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS throughout the = mudflat. I=20 also found a single SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, I don't know why it was = all=20 alone. On the west side of the mudflat, there was a pair of (lesbian?)=20 female HOODED MERGANSERS. There were also two families of Mallards. = There=20 was a pair of GREAT EGRETS (perhaps nesting.) Watching over all the = commotion=20 was a RED-TAILED HAWK, which I never saw leave his perch. I saw a pair = of CEDAR=20 WAXWINGS, and heard a WARBLING VIREO (and maybe a Red-eyed Vireo, too.) = If=20 anyone wants directions, please e-mail me. Good birding!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Alyssa DeRubeis</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Golden Valley, Hennepin=20 Co.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C68A73.2D9A0AE0--