I was at the Wells sewage ponds in Faribault County today and spotted an American Avocet in the midst of a large group of Black Terns that were hanging out on the berm between the two ponds on the south side of the highway. There were also 5 or more Red-necked Phalaropes in the west pond on the north side of the highway (CR109) that splits the ponds.
In Freeborn I found a pair of Trumpeter Swans in a small wetland on the west side of I35 just south of Albert Lea. I was actually on CR 18 just south of the I35 CR5 exit but the birds should also be visible from I35. Warblers were pretty sparse. I had a couple of Nashville and a few Wilson's and a real surprise was a Mourning perched fairly high in a dead tree beside the road (a few miles south of I90 due south of Wells). The NW winds were pretty brisk but I can't complain since that was probably the reason the migrants were that far south. Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in SE Minnesota http://www.Birding-Minnesota.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
