Whitetail Woods County Park. Nothing earthshattering but a lovely little flock of ruby-crowned and golden-crowned kinglets in the woods by EMpire Lake (about a dozen). One Ruby singing even! A trumpeter swan on the lake and a Great Egret. A few yellow-rumps here and there and a phoebe.
Swung out to 180th Marsh. About 25 Rusty Blackbirds hunkered down in a shrub out of the wind. Yesterday (April 11) one male yellow-headed Blackbird. The coots and the shovelers were crowded together feeding in choppy waves and fighting and fighting! (coot v. coot and shoveler v. shoveler). So that was fun to watch! I thought maybe the waves kept smacking them together. It's underway... (signed: a Michigander (Yooper) transplanted to the urban landscape...) Elizabeth Rogers Tiller, Ph.D. 20487 Colorado Ave. Farmington, MN 55024-9526 651-200-2489 beth87til...@gmail.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
