Friday: With the wind whipping through, there were not many birds about. I watched a Kestrel riding the wind, when suddenly it saw something of interest, spun a 360, and stopped in its "tracks" and hovered effortlessly in the wind with just a few sporadic wing beats to keep it stationary. the maneuver was awesome!
I always glance at road kill to try and determine what animal tried to take out a car. Of late I have noticed a fair number of mink have been unlucky in their spring dispersal. If you see one of these beautiful animals, look for a long dark brown mammal. You can confirm its ID if you can see its white chin. Saturday: Birded in the morning around Randolph. Found 18 species of waterfowl including about ten each of Snow Geese (both phases) and Horned Grebes at Lake Bylessby. East of town we found more than 20 Snipe and a few less in a flock that included both yellowlegs and perhaps some Pectorals. There were large flocks of Tree Swallows. Everywhere in the open country we found pairs of Horned Larks and Vesper Sparrows. We also found Song and Savannah sparrows. 180th Street swamp has high water with good habitat, but no birds that we hadn't seen earlier. Steve Weston on Quigley 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
