On Saturday, while doing a scouting trip for the Houston Festival of Owls field trip that will be held on 3/6, I found 2 Killdeer in the open water of the creek just south of the entrance to Wildcat Landing. This spot is located on the east side of Hwy 26 about 1/2 mile south of Brownsville (Houston County along the Mississippi). Spring is coming!!
Other highlights were dozens of Horned Larks, an Eastern Screech Owl, and quite a few Bald Eagles and Red-tailed Hawks. The biggest concentration of raptors were 30+ Bald Eagles standing around the edge of a small hole of open water (caused by a spring) on the Mississippi River. This spring is south of Hwy 14/61 between La Crosse and La Crescent. It is located about half way between La Crescent and the west channel bridge and is just east of the spot where Bonanza Foods was located years ago (there is an area with several businesses on the south side of Hwy 14/61). Good Birding, Dan Jackson, Chaseburg, WI (Near La Crosse) www.pbase.com/dejackson ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
