An eastern phoebe is singing outside our headquarters/office this morning. Hooded merganser, northern pintail, wood duck, mallard, trumpeter swan in the river. Great blue herons, killdeer, are back as well as more sandhill cranes. A visitor reported eastern bluebirds on CR 4, but I haven't seen them on the refuge myself yet.
There is a song sparrow at headquarters also, but this is a bird (assuming it's the same one) that over-wintered here. The Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive will open for the season on Thursday, April 18. Betsy Beneke Sherburne NWR ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
