The Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive is open, but fairly quiet so far. REMEMBER, we're driving clockwise this year!
Some refuge species seen by volunteers and staff so far include: Lots of ducks, including ruddy, common and red-breasted mergansers. (red-breasted just now showing up) Common Loon Horned grebe Great egret Greater & lesser yellowlegs Rough-legged hawk. That dark bird is still being seen near CR's 5 and 9 intersection. I have a couple of so-so photos of it, if anyone is interested in seeing them. Eastern phoebe Common raven (off CR 4 about 1 mile west of Orrock) Tree and barn swallows Marsh wren Hermit & Swainson's thrushes Brown thrasher Snow bunting - this morning (Tuesday) at 2.4 miles. I have a photo. Orange-crowned, yellow-rumped, palm, yellow and black and white warblers Eastern towhee Tree, chipping, clay-colored, field, vesper, savannah, fox, song, Lincoln's, swamp, white-crowned and white-throated sparrows. 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
