On Sunday, in chilly, dreary, windy conditions I led the tenth(?) annual MRVAC Dakota Co. Prairie Birds field trip. Starting at Schaar's Bluff, we hit the Archery Range unit of Spring Lake Park, the former 140th Street Marsh, and Randolph Industrial Park. We found most of our target prairie birds: Dickcissel (at least 13 singing males at Randolph Industrial Park), Bobolink, both Meadowlarks (western at Randolph, missed Eastern), Brewer's Blackbird (great looks opposite the house on Idell, just outside Schaar's Bluff), and grassland sparrows (Savanah, Grasshopper (Randolph), Vesper, and Lark(Archery Range)). We also had great looks at a Scarlet Tanager, heard a singing Ovenbird, and a Least Flycatcher, all at the Archery Range and a first year male Orchard Oriole at the former 140th Street Marsh.
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
