On Friday I came home and noticed a bird in a tree next to the drive way. Walking close I watched a Red-breasted Nuthatch on the elm tree. It seemed totally unconcerned that I was standing about five feet away.
On Saturday I got out for a couple of hours checking out some small wood lots adjacent to farm fields in Rosemount. It was quiet and I found few birds. The trees were thick with fruit. I have never seen the black cherries as plentiful. I found plum trees so thick with fruit that even the bugs had failed to get to them all. I collected a handful of perfect little plums, sweet and untouched by pests. I brought them home to eat later. I also got out to the sod farms in Empire (Jirik and Braun on CR66). I didn't find as much as Jim Mattsson, who did a good job of describing what was out there. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN sweston2 at comcast.net