Frank Gosiak spotted a Common Gallinule as we re-turned to a spot birded earlier, beautifully plumaged, 6pm. It was swimming out in the open for some time until a juvenile Ruddy Duck popped up from beneath it. The Gallinule flew up with a fright and into the thick sedge of the pond structure. Find it along Peyton Ave SW (between CR1 and CR3, just north of Common St NW --a county line road with McLeod). The "north" pond had Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Ruddy Ducks, the slough pond along the road in the middle had an Alder Flycatcher and the Gallinule, the "south" pond had many Great Egrets. Other birds of note: Eurasian Collared Doves amid the farmsteads of the CR31--CR5 of McLeod and Wright, a Stilt Sandpiper and a few others in nearby Meeker County. mjb ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html