[mou] Birding Around Hastings

[Sharon Stiteler]

This morning was busy at the banding station at Carpenter Nature  
Center in Hastings.  We banded over fifty juncoes, and one was a  
white-winged junco.  We also observed purple finches, eastern  
bluebirds, and red-breasted nuthatches.

After banding, I stopped over at Prescott and observed the peregrines  
on the railroad bridge and about six tree swallows flying overhead.   
I stopped at Point Douglas and observed ring-necked ducks, redheads,  
bufflehead, hooded mergansers and scaup.  I ran into fellow birder  
Jim Otto and he helped me try and distinguish greater from lesser  
scaup.  They were fairly close to shore and I was able to pick out at  
least two greaters.  If scaup are not a strong suit for you, it could  
be a good spot to try and tell the difference--with a scope, they are  
relatively close to shore.

I did not see the harlequin duck today.


Sharon Stiteler
www.birdchick.com
Minneapolis, MN


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