On Monday night when I drove up to the house on Quiggley Lake, I was greeted by dueling Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. One was on my neighbor's house banging on the metal cover for his chimney. The other was on the other side of the house, probably on a dead limb. After a while, the one on the chimney cover moved down to one of my wood duck houses (probably occupied by a some eggs, but not yet a hen), and the one on the other side of the house moved up to the chimney cover.
Tonight I grabbed my binocs when I heard a Nashville Warbler singing. I could not find it as it headed deeper into the woods. A Mallard hen was out with her seven new ducklings, and a Canada Goose was still on her nest, but five gooslings were scurring about her. Other first were Chimney Swifts and copes gray treefrogs. Dandalions are popping up in the yard, along with strawberries and violets. Mostly I am noticing a small white violets and very few of the larger purple and violet colored violets. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
