[mou] MN Valley Trail

[linda]

(between the Lyndale Ave. boat ramp and the mouth of 9-Mile 
Creek--Mpls./Bloomington)

under the highway bridge: a pair of hooded mergansers

on or over the wetland lake bisected by the causeway leading to 9-Mile 
Creek Park: a bufflehead female, several wood ducks, an egret, a 
kingfisher, tree swallows, song sparrows, cowbirds, red-wing blackbirds, 
3 immature bald eagles

on the trail: mature bald eagle on the the nest, juncos, brown creepers, 
   yellow-rumped warbler (heard), possible kinglets (heard)

Linda Whyte