This morning (Sunday) I was joined by eight birders to brave blood sucking mosquitos and energy sucking heat to explore the state forest trail along the bottom lands of the Cannon and Vermillion rivers for the annual August MRVAC Cannon River Bottoms field trip. We found this trail off of Collischan Road near Red Wing in remarkably better condition than previous years. Apparently the state or whoever has finally gotten around to maintaining the trail.
The specialty of the trip has been Cuckoos and this year, while we did not see any, we heard several of both kinds. We had fifteen species of warbler including Cerulean, Blackburnian, and Prothonotary. We had several flycatchers including Olive-sided, Willow, and possible Acadian. Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
