[mou] Birding about metro

[Steve Weston]

Saturday:  140th Street marsh is no longer a marsh, a real downer, but birds 
there included Willow Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and a Loggerhead 
Shrike near the west gate.  Bank Swallows are nesting nearby on Connelly.  A 
Kestrel was sitting with his head sticking out of a box along the road at 
the 180th Street marsh.

Sunday:   Birding at Louisville Swamp is not recommended without long 
sleeves and concentrated DEET.  The swarms were so thick that I actually had 
one between the binoculars and my eye.  Lots of Indigo Buntings and Brown 
Thrashers.  I found Blue-winged Warblers, Orchard Oriole, a Prothonatory 
Warbler,  I did NOT find a Blue Grosbeak, Kentucky Warbler, or Hooded 
Warbler (reported south of parking lot near ruined farmstead).  Near the 
ruins I found a Common Yellowthroat singing a song that was not close to any 
song I have ever heard from them.  Elsewhere in Scott County I found Black 
Tern and a Western Meadowlark.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
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