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From: Laura Coble shearwate...@frontiernet.net
Date: March 17, 2010 7:00:44 PM CDT
To: mnbird.l...@mnbird.net
Subject: Tundra Swans, Dakota and Goodhue Counties
Yesterday around 4:30 pm, I found 70 Tundra Swans and a mixed flock of
ducks--Canvasback, Common
This year for the 1st time in Crane Lake, we have had a Cardinal overwinter,
this morning he was singing. It was odd to hear, not something we're used to.
As I was listening, I heard Evening Grosbeaks. The Pine Grosbeaks have left,
the last Pine Grosbeak I saw was Saturday, the 13th.
Then I
Spent yesterday searching for signs of spring in Polk county.
There was a lot of water in western part of the county. Miles of beet
fields were flooded to the ditches along 75 south of Crookston and
along Cty Hwy 1 east towards Fertile. The wind whipped white caps on
the fields and hundreds
Prescott area
3/18
10:00-12:00noon
First time in a while with non-northerly winds, and mostly Canada Geese were on
the move. Everything else was quite slow, especially raptors. Most interesting
were:
Canada Goose = 2,620 - continuous flocks
Gr. White-fronted Goose = 144
Cackling Goose = 2
Today I've been watching a significant movement of geese over campus
here at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, This morning a flock of
around 40 Canadas had a lone Greater White-fronted with it. Next came a
mixed flock of 50 or so Canada and Cackling. A few pure Canada flocks
came and
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Two very flocks of White-fronted Geese over Sand Point. Many flocks of Canadas
on the move. In the corn stubble at Kellogg Dunes were 200 grounded Tundra
Swans. Two Cackling Geese amongst the hundreds of Canadas at Orinoco. Three
Trumpeter Swans in Whitewater Valley.
I expected to see
Between 5 and 6:30 pm, on the west side of Lake Byllesby (accessed from Hwy 88,
1/4 mi. east of Randolph, on a trail from the pullout), I saw most of what Jim
Mattson saw in his previous report this am, except for the Sandhill Cranes and
the hawks:
I added Bufflehead and and Red-breasted
-RBA
*Minnesota
*Detroit Lakes
*March 18, 2010
*MNDL1003.18
-Birds mentioned
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Gray Partridge
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Wild Turkey
Northern Harrier
Golden Eagle
American
Fillmore
At least 1500 Canada Geese moving in various places, 9 Sandhill Cranes in
flocks of Canadas, 30 Tundra Swans on 121st Ave just south of 200th St., both
Eastern and Western meadowlarks singing, Long-eared Owl in Beaver Creek WMA
(migrant as this bird not here last weekend, probably
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