[mou] Birds about the Metro

[Steve Weston]

In addition to the prairie birds trip, I also stopped at the Black Dog Fen 
in Burnsville at about 7:30pm on Sunday.  I heard, but did not stop to find 
the Bell's Vireo.  I stayed about a half hour and listened to the  CHAT.  It 
was singing softly, as if it was at the nest.  Interesting, was the WOODCOCK 
that flash by in the late dusk as we stood in the parking lot.

On Friday, I found a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS on a pond in Champlin at about 
112th and Xylon.

Yesterday (Monday), I checked out woods below Shaar's Bluff off of Hillary 
Path, west of Hastings.  I found a Great Horned Owl being harrassed by a 
Cooper's Hawk, who enlisted the support of a murder of crows.  In the woods 
I found a Scarlet Tanager and Ovenbird.

Today (Tuesday) I found a COMMON LOON on the Arbor Lake in Maple Grove off 
of Hemlock.  There was also a Spotted Sandpiper there.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
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