Bird first pull off on west side of lake on 35. It was a beatiful male admist a big golden eye flock.
---------- Sent from AT&T's wireless network using Mobile Email -----Original Message----- From: Erik Bruhnke <birdf...@gmail.com> Sent: 11/15/2008 1:33:06 AM To: mou-net at moumn.org <mou-net at moumn.org> Subject: [mou] Park Point sightings This morning from 7:30am until I left for work at 11:30am, I birded the length of Park Point. One of my favorite moments was finding an adult female LONG-TAILED DUCK. Boy are they pretty (one of my favorite ducks)! I just love the unique-ness of them. Also, I had 2 White-winged Scoters on the west side of the parkinglot at the end of Park Point, and on the east side of that parkinglot, two Surf Scoters were in view. There were lots of Common Goldeneyes as well, and the largest group that I counted consisted of 215 Common Goldeneye. A few dozen Scaup were seen closer to the airport. I also had one juvenile Thayer's Gull fly over. They're so cool! I've got pictures of both scoter species from this morning, and lots of somewhat distant Long-tailed Duck photos I took this morning. I'll post those hopefully monday. Other flyover observations include: Snow Buntings Common Redpolls White-winged Crossbills Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN birdfedr at gmail.com www.pbase.com/birdfedr
