Hey MN - Yesterday some of my family and I took a short walk at Old Cedar Avenue in the MN Valley Natl Wildlife Refuge at around 1:30 yesterday. It was very quiet in terms of passerines, but there's a lead of open water which was productive, visible from the boardwalk platform. There were about 75 Herring Gulls and a handful of Ring-billed Gulls, and a single 1st-cycle Glaucous Gull on the ice. There were about 10 Trumpeter Swans, some Canada Geese, and a few Common Mergansers, Goldeneye and Mallards. Further west in the glare of the sun were many more waterfowl, probably also geese and swans.
-- Jesse Ellis Post-doctoral Researcher Dept. of Zoology University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, Dane Co, WI ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
