Spent most of the afternoon at Talcot WMA. One of the first birds seen was an EASTERN PHOEBE in pines, I believe the earliest I have ever seen a Phoebe by weeks.
Also seen(partial list): Killdeer 2+ Redwinged Black birds 1000s Greater White Fronted Geese 1000s (my, how their status has changed) Canada geese 1000s Cackling Geese 10s Snow geese (almost all up high and flying north in large flocks - very few down low) ~1500 up high Eagles 10s (certainly reports of larger numbers around) Pintail common Gadwall common Common Mergansers Hooded Merganser Wood Ducks Mallards Redheads Ring-billed Gulls - 10+ Redtail hawk - only one noticed on the way there Robin - 1 Although the waves of redwinged Blackbirds became very apparent to me on Thursday. I have not yet noticed similiar waves of Robins, Grackles, and Flickers. Probably more I am forgetting or failed to notice. I was mourning my tripod and another year passed. Brad Bolduan Windom ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
