Hi everyone, Ron Erpelding, Linda Born, and I found a Ross' Goose on the west side of Lake Elysian today. There is some open water due to an aerator here off of CR 18. There was also a very large flock, 150+ of Greater White-fronted Geese flying over just south of here.
Ron and I also had displaying American Woodcock at Rice Lake State Park, in Steele County this evening. Other surprises were 2 Northern Shrikes in Waseca County, 2 dark-morph Rough-legged Hawks in Steele County (they were together) and Sandhill Cranes in at least three different locations (Rice/Steele) today. I also added Blue-winged Teal (Rice) and several Rusty Blackbirds (Steele) for the year. Blackbird and Kestrel numbers were way up today compared to earlier it seemed (to me). Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN screechowl at charter.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080329/d72cb560/attachment-0001.html
