FOS Grasshopper Sparrow (Marshall) FOS Common Merganser (Polk) FOS American Black Duck (Marshall) FOS Ruddy Turnstone (Marshall) FOS Whimbrel (Goose Lake IBA, Pennington) FOS American Golden-Plover (Marshall) Possible FOS Eastern Meadowlark (Polk) - Bird was heard but not seen just south of the Polk/Marshall county line Confirmed Breeding Wood Duck - brood of 10 in Warren (Snake River) Confirmed Breeding Gadwall (Marshall) - Nest of 7 (+ 1 predated) eggs at Agassiz Valley Impoundment
A large variety (if not large numbers) of shorebirds are still passing through the Agassiz Valley Impoundment. 18 species seen on 5/26: Killdeer Semipalmated Plover Marbled Godwit Hudsonian Godwit Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper "Western" Willet Ruddy Turnstone 6 Dunlin Pectoral Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope (currently outnumbering Wilson's) The first American Golden-Plovers for Agassiz Valley Impoundment this year were seen on Thursday but not by me. Upland Sandpipers were seen there on 5/25. Short-billed and Long-billed Dowitchers were seen there on 5/24. Whimbrel: I had 2 at the actual Goose Lake of Goose Lake IBA along the Historical Pembina Trail in Pennington County on 5/27. No photo taken. I'm familiar with both this species (having grown up birding the coast of Georgia) and their look alikes (both Marbled Godwits and Long-billed Curlews in Colorado). Definitely Whimbrels. Other Species Seen: Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Great Blue Heron Great Egret American Bittern (Aerial courtship display?) Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Trumpeter Swan Canada Goose (some "Lesser"s, 1 Cackling Goose in ND) Mallard Gadwall Wood Duck Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Goldeneye American Wigeon Ruddy Duck Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk (including 1 apparent Krider's morph) Bald Eagle American Kestrel Sharp-tailed Grouse Sandhill Crane American Coot Ring-billed Gull Forester's Tern Black Tern Mourning Dove Rock Dove Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Common Nighthawk Barn Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Tree Swallow Northern Flicker Downy Woodpecker Ruby-throated Hummingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Eastern Pheobe Warbling Vireo Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Chimney Swift Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch Sedge Wren Marsh Wren House Wren American Robin Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing European Starling Yellow Warbler Tennessee Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Mourning Warbler Chipping Sparrow Savanna Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Song Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Western Meadowlark Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch Pine Siskin House Sparrow Bill Blackburn Minnesota Audubon Warren, MN A note on locations (since many of them are new): The impoundments are open to the public but may not always be open to vehicles Audubon Center of the Red River Valley (Polk County): Formerly Wetlands, Pines, and Prairie Audubon Sanctuary. South on Marshall 36/Polk 68 from Minn 1 east of Warren Agassiz Valley Impoundment (Polk/Marshall Counties): Immediately north of the Audubon Center of the Red River Valley. NOT to be confused with Agassiz NWR. Off Channel Impoundment (Marshall County): 4 miles north of Minn 1 on 240th. 240th is 2 miles east of the turn for the Audubon Center AO#4 Impoundment (Polk County): Polk 68 South from the Audubon Center till it dead ends at Polk 23. Head south 1 mile then east 1 mile. Euclid East Impoundment (Polk County): 1.5 miles east of Euclid on Polk 19 Parnell Impoundment (Polk County): Take US 75 south out of Euclid to Polk 17 east. Impoundment is on the north side of the road 2.5 miles east of US 75. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
