Spent some time looking around the lake early this PM. One Surf Scoter was seen in the southeast area, then it flew to the northeast area where it was seen again about an hour later.
As there were a lot of users on the lake (primarily sail boarders and parachute boarders using the high winds) the loons were confined to mostly watchable areas of the lake. Little other than a few scattered one, twos, or threes were in the eastern and southern areas of the lake. The northwestern area of the lake had one flock of better than 20 loons and several other scattered birds in other areas. Total probably some 45-50 loons were still on the lake and all were clearly Common Loons. There could have been others that I couldn't see because, as most of you know, there are areas of the lake that are simply not visible from the limited 8-10 access points. Dennis and Barbara Martin Shorewood, MN dbmar...@skypoint.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
