The White-winged Scoter was still in this same area at 11 am. I parked in Boom Island park and walked south to the Nicollet Island area. I was often 12 feet from the bird as it searched for food and surfaced close to the bank.
Curt Rawn On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Alyssa DeRubeis <alderub...@gmail.com>wrote: > I observed the female-type White-winged Scoter off of Boom Island Park > (Minneapolis) at 7:15pm. At one point, a boat came in and scared the scaup > and scoter. They flew from the north tip of Nicollet Island north towards > the Plymouth Avenue bridge, but within a minute the scoter returned near > its original spot, about 50 feet offshore. The bird was still there when I > left at 7:30pm. About 7 other birders were there. > > Thank you Doug Kieser for sharing Abigail Anderson's find, and thank you to > Doug, Rebecca Field, Jeanne Tanamachi, and Rob Daves for keeping me updated > on the scoter. > > I checked a couple of Golden Valley (also Hennepin Co.) ponds this evening > in hopes of spotting a Black-crowned Night Heron. I didn't find one, but > there were 5 Great Egrets sporting their lovely breeding plumage. > > Good birding! > > Alyssa DeRubeis > Lake Mills, IA > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Curt Rawn 612-618-6200 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
