On Saturday I filled my wife's car (it holds more passangers) with birders and hit road for western Minnesota. With a few stops on the way we headed to the Larson's Prairie Marsh Farm in western Lac qui Parle County. On Sunday we headed south and finished the day surveying a couple of blocks in northwester Yellow Medicine Co. for the Breeding Bird Atlas. We ended up with 102 species with some interesting finds:
Red-headed Woodpecker - a pair seen in YM Prothonotary Warbler - on territory in sothwest LqP Black-billed Cuckoo - a pair heard and seen while looking at the Prothonotary LqP Logger-head Shrike - a pair in a thorn tree LqP Eurasian Collard Doves - three seen at Sacred Heart, Renville Co. American Wigeon LqP Wilson Snipe -probably on territory - LqP Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - late migrant? YM Upland Sandpiper - YM American Bittern - We had to stop the car so he could cross. Swift Co. Horned Larks were not seen during the day, although on earlier trips they were seen everywhere. After it got dark we could hear several in one field singing. Vesper Sparrows were comon, but mostly silent. We found a healthy colony of Richardson's Ground Squirrels, just this side of the border in Lac qui Parle. 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
