Hey birders!
I led a fieldtrip this morning in northeastern Blue Earth County. We ended up with 56 species for the trip and only missed swans, Cackling Goose, and a couple of ducks. Eagle Lake's north end had a Common Loon, dancing Sandhill Cranes, a Great Blue Heron and two Bonaparte's Gulls with a couple of Ring-billed Gulls. Gilfillin Slough/Lake was largely empty, but Long Lake to the north was loaded with Ring-necked Ducks, Canvasbacks, a few Redheads, and an assortment of dabblers including Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal. Wita Lake had Common Merganser, Common Goldeneye, a Pied-billed Grebe, and a single Greater Scaup in with the Lesser Scaup. American Tree Sparrows and Song Sparrows sang from the lake's weedy edge. Duck Lake had a large raft of Red-breasted Mergansers with a few Common Mergansers and some Herring Gulls. By far, the best site was our last which was Indian Lake near Smith's Mill. We had four geese including a couple of Ross's Geese mixed in with a large flock of Snows and 100+ Greater White-fronted Geese. Ruddy Duck was there along with Gadwall, American Wigeon, Mallard and many of the other species we had already seen. Happy Birding! Chad Heins Mankato ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
