Hello birders Well my wife and I were down at the World Bird sanctuary showing at Carpenter nature center in Hastings this morning and then we were looking at a dozen or so horned larks along 180th street when I got a call from my friend Travis reporting birds in Shakopee. I missed the turn off to meet him and ended up at Veterans Park and called him because I was seeing better sightings than he was so he joined my wife and i. First of all we saw a bird i had never seen before. We had to look it up. It is called a Chinese Goose and it is descended from a wild swan goose. It is a domesticated goose apparently. Well wherever it came from it was certainly a lovely sight. We also saw sever goldeneye, gadwall,coots, hybrid black ducks and a strange brownish mallard that was probably a hybrid. I think we saw some cracking geese too but I’m never certain of those when I see them. I posted some photos on my flickr page and a couple of video.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/with/25185960621/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/with/25185960621/> Happy birding to you Ron Taube Coon Rapids.
