At 7:15 p.m. on 4/25/13, I birded 180th Street marsh for about 45 minutes. the following were seen: -American Bittern: seen in the southwestern pond about 50 feet from road. It was actively feeding. After about 30 minutes it flew farther back and out of sight into the taller cattails
Other birds that were seen: Virginia rail: 2 seen in vicinity of bittern Wilson's phalarope: 4 seen in southeastern pool hundreds of coots canada goose: 4 Northern Pintail- 1 Mallard Gadwall lesser scaup bufflehead- around 15 ring necked duck wood duck blue winged teal northern shoveler brewers blackbird: about 15 sitting on power lines with red winged blackbirds pied billed grebe: 2 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html