[mou] 2 Little Blue Herons in Douglas!

[Benjamin Fritchman]

Today my mom, Mary Kroll, and I birded central Minnesota. We stopped up at 
Hamden Slough and found one of the Moorhens in the previously reported area. 
The next lake as you drive north on the left has been drawn down and held 
hundreds of shorebirds. Mostly Yellowlegs, but there was a single Ruddy 
Turnstone and several Pectoral Sandpipers.

On the way home we stopped by the Bah Lakes WPA area. We went to the 
previously reported pond where the im. Little Blue Heron was found. Since it 
wasn't reported yesterday we didn't have high hopes, but when we arrived 
there was the im. and an adult! The im was hanging around the adult the 
entire time, and after about 30 minutes they flew off together at about 3 
P.M.

Also we met Dan and Sandy Thimgan and we told them about the adult Little 
Blue Heron, which they observed until they flew, and they relocated the 20+ 
Cattle Egrets, but they were north of the intersection of Grant County Rd 54 
and CR19. They were sitting in a tree across a pond on the east side of the 
road just north of Olsons Bay Road. They were flying around a lot, and were 
seen in general around the Bah Lakes WPA flying over.

Ben Fritchman

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