Snow is quickly melting and the river trail at Rapids Lake MVNWR is either covered with less than an inch of snow or bare. There was a nice variety on another rather dreary morning(did have a few glimpses of the sun).
Rapids Lake complete list Canada Goose 12 Trumpeter Swan 2 Tundra Swan 35(migrating flock) Wood Duck Gadwall 100 Mallard Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 30 Green-winged Teal 16 Redhead 10 Ring-necked Duck 150 Lesser Scaup 25 Bufflehead 12 Common Goldeneye 30 Hooded Merganser Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe 1 American White Pelican 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Northern Harrier 1 female Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 100 Ring-billed Gull 20 Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 8 Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Winter Wren 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 21 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9 Hermit Thrush 13 American Robin Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 (6 male and 2 female) American Tree Sparrow 10 Vesper Sparrow 3 Savannah Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 20 Song Sparrow 16 Dark-eyed Junco 50 Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark 2 Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html