[mou] This last weekend in Aitkin County

[Warren]

On Saturday morning, I helped with a birding group at the Rice Lake 
National Wildlife Refuge and we were pretty impressed. We found well 
over 100 BALD EAGLES ( we counted 68 sitting on the ice near the island 
on Rice Lake). There were several CACKLING GEESE mixed in with the 
hundreds of Canada Geese and the 200 to 300 TUNDRA SWANS. We also found 
an early HERMIT THRUSH.
Over the weekend we found 63 species of birds. A few of the others: 2 
COMMON LOONS, one SNOW GOOSE, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, BLACK-BILLED 
MAGPIES and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS.   Warren Nelson