Andy Forbes and I had a singing Bell's Vireo just west of Big Stone NWR on Saturday evening. Go south from HQ on route 15 a couple of miles to the base of the big hill, then turn right at the crossroad on to route 15, and go 1.1 miles past the Yellow Bank River bridge to where the road overlooks both the refuge on the north and the Yellow Bank River on the south (Pileated often here). The bird was on the south side of the road along with a calling BBCuckoo. This was part of a long big day starting at 3.30 a.m. in Sherburne County and looping out to Big Stone country. We recorded 144 species including 4 peep species and a Ruddy Turnstone at Albany sewage ponds, Yellow-bellied Fly and Connecticut Warbler at St. John's, and Grey Partridge and Swainson's Hawk in Kandiyohi County. Bob Russell ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
