In my yard in East Grand Forks on Friday, I had a first-of-season Wilson’s Warbler, also a Tennessee Warbler. Today, the first fledgling goldfinches.
Yesterday I stopped at the East Grand Forks sewage ponds. There are now many young Eared Grebes, ranging from medium-sized to itty bitty. There are also a number of adults still sitting on nests. There were a dozen or so Red-necked Phalaropes. Today at the Agassiz Valley impoundment southeast of Warren, shorebirds that were close enough to ID included Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Stilt Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper; it was pretty much the same species on both sides of the Marshall and Polk County line. I also stopped by to see their new pollinator garden and found an Olive-sided Flycatcher (I also had one along the Red River in East Grand Forks last week). South of Agassiz, at the Brandt-Angus impoundment, there were basically all the same shorebirds, but I also saw 3 Red-necked Phalaropes and several hundred Sandhill Cranes coming in. Sandy Aubol Polk County East Grand Forks, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
