Seconding Steve, I also saw Yellow-Rumps gleaning bugs off the water the other day for the first time. Was wondering if I'd just missed a regular feeding behavior.
Not a lot of new bird action today (for me anyway)--though on a trip to Lanesboro I did get my FOY Gnatcatchers and Black-and-white Warbler at Eagle Bluff ELC. Kyle Te Poel Stillwater, MN On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Steve Weston <swesto...@gmail.com> wrote: > FOY: Broad-winged Hawk, seen Lino Lakes > > Some of our wood duck houses see double duty with squirrels early in the > spring and Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers later. I watched as squirrel > loitered on a wood duck house that I had seen mergansers exiting a few days > earlier. When the squirrel looked in the house, he was quickly detered by > an incubating merganser, who almost took out his eyes. > > I watched as Swamp Sparrow yesterday and a Yellow-rump today fed by picking > small bugs from the surface of the water, which I had never seen before. > > 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
