I saw the Black-headed Gull at it's usual spot at the north end of Spirit Lake, Iowa on Friday. After sitting along the road for two and a half hours I was rewarded when it flew across the road into Minnesota about 3 PM. Also of note, there is a stock pond on east side of Hwy 86 at 730th where a large number of geese and blackbirds are congregating. Among them on Friday afternoon was a flock of at least 12 Great-tailed Grackles at the edge of the pond near the highway. I counted seven males and five females before the flock flew with a few Common Grackles mixed in to give a nice size comparison. Other birds of interest (at least for me) from this weekend: 2 Short-eared Owls flying over the east unit of Plover Prairie in Lac Qui Parle county between 6:45 and 7 PM Saturday harassing a Northern Harrier. Eurasian Collared Dove in Wheaton on Sunday. The bird was in a yard along Hwy 27 at the corner of 16th street. Red-Breasted Nuthatches in Pipestone, Lac Qui Parle, Big Stone, and Wilkin counties. 6 Snow Buntings along 200th street near the Rothsay WMA in Wilkin county on Sunday. A late Magnolia Warbler and a Winter Wren in an Aspen grove near Rothsay. American Pipits and Harris Sparrows everywhere! Joel Claus Eden Prairie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071014/bc3a279c/attachment.html
