Five Olmsted birders (Chuck Krulas, Jerry Pruett, Jeff Stephenson, John Hockema and myself) did a Big Day in Olmsted County on Friday the 11th (a bit earlier than usual) and ended up with 139 species. We had 23 warbler species (24 is the highest we have recorded), 10 sparrow species, 9 duck species, 3 geese species, and only 8 shorebird species. We have very little shorebird habitat and the little we have hasn't attracted many birds to it thus far. We have had as many as 19 shorebird species but our average over the past 15 years has been around 10 so I suppose we can't complain too much. The key to finding the warblers was to find them early in the day when they are the most active. Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in Southeast Minnesota ekblad at frontiernet.net http://www.Birding-Minnesota.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070512/9b27366f/attachment.html