I headed to Lake Byllesby today looking for shorebirds and the water was very high so there wasn't any shorebird habitat that I noticed on the west end of the lake. I only saw one Spotted Sandpiper but there was a lot of activity from more common species on shore.
I decided to go over to the Randolph industrial park nearby and there were: Dickcissel- at least 2. Grasshopper Sparrow- many Eastern Meadowlark- at least 2 Sora Savannah Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow I then headed over to the 180th Street marsh and there were some nice birds including: Yellow-headed Blackbird- many Black Tern- 9 Hooded Merganser- 4 Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow Vesper Sparrow- several Sora I tried for the Loggerhead Shrike on Emery but did not find it. Good birding, Jason Caddy South Minneapolis ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
