Hi everyone, John Hockema and I birded today in LeSueur County. At Sakatah State Park, there was a singing Cerulean Warbler at the campground, and we observed a fly-over Swainson's Hawk.
We stopped in Rice County, just west of Warsaw to observe many terns on the Cannon River. There were many Forsters and Caspian Terns present, along with a couple of Franklin's Gulls. We also had a single Red-headed Woodpecker along CR 71 in Rice Co. Then we birded quite awhile at the state park and around the lakes. Highlights: Black, Caspian and Forsters Terns, as well as a Red-necked Grebe on Lake Tustin near Elysian. 4 Eared Grebes and one Bonaparte's Gull on Scotch Lake near Cleveland. 16 species of warbler between the two counties. Harris and White-crowned Sparrows around Kasota Prairie. 2 Trumpeter Swans along CR 16 east of Marysburg. Other FOY's Eastern Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, Chestnut-sided Warbler, American Redstart, Baltimore Oriole, Virginia Rail and Green Heron. All together between the two counties we tallied 116 species. Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN screech...@q.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
