Driving into a parking lot in Eagan this morning I scared up a first year
Snow Bunting. Great habitat: asphalt. I always wonder about a single bird
that is typically a flocking bird. Why is it on its own? It was quite
skittish. Will it survive to make it a reunion with its kind?
This morni
I am seeing lots of Horned Larks in the farm areas especially in Dakota
County, but also in western Hennepin County.
A Northern Flicker has been coming to my feeders all winter. One or two
Pileated Woodpeckers are also regularly coming to the suet feeder. I
usually hear them pounding on the s
A few days ago I found a group of courting Hooded Mergansers at the west
outfall of Black Dog Lake near 35w and the Minnesota River.
That day I also saw a Red-tailed Hawk flying by the Best Buy headquarters in
Richfield carrying a stick. I will have to figure out where the nest is.
Today I wen
Friday: Saw my FOY Great-blue Heron flying by the Lake St. Bridge in
Minneapolis. Had 2 Brown Creepers at home.
Sunday: Our resident Canada Geese have returned. The lake is still frozen.
I had about 10 gulls flying by. I was planning on remounting a Wood Duck
house that I relined to close
All this week there have been hundreds of Pelicans all along the Minnesota
River. On Friday there were large flocks of cormorants flying over the Mendota
Bridge just above the cars.
Wednesday:
today's bird was the Common Loon, even bigger than ever, sitting on Quiggley
Lake (ice 90% gone) a
On Sunday domestic duties kept me at home. I did check my wood duck houses.
One I cleaned out and took down for rehab. The squirrels tore it up pretty
bad. One has juvenile Gray Squirrels and one is presumed to still have
squirrels. The other two had 13 and 17 eggs. Although it appeared tha
Stopped by Murphy-Hanrahan Park in Scott County on Thursday evening. Found
at least 12 warblers and might have had a Cerulean Warbler, including FOY
Blue-winged and Wilsons. Best birds included several singing Wood Thrushes
(no Veeries) and Great Creasted Flycatchers. Very abundant and noisy
I am still finding Barn Swallows feeding young in nests. On Monday I found in
an Eagan picnic shelter what was unquestionably a second brood for a pair that
nested by themselves about five weeks earlier about 20 yeards away. On
Thursday I found two more nests at a small colony at a loading doc
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