[mou] Prodigal son returns

[Richard Carlson]

After a few years absence (except for funerals) we're finally getting back
to Minnesota for some BIRDING.

Would love some tips on hotspots or sought after birds.

We have a copy of Kim Eckerts book. (If  I can find it)  Is there a new
issue?

LIFERS:

Yellow Rail
White-rumped Sandpiper
Clay-colored Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
LeConte's Sparrow
Blue-winged Warbler


NEVER SEEN IN MINNESOTA

Black-billed Cuckoo
Boreal Owl
Black-backed Woodpecker
Boreal Chickadee
Golden-winged Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird

COOL BIRDS WE HAVEN'T SEEN VERY OFTEN

Great Gray Owl

As always we're happy to help birders, especially Minnesotans,  who visit
our home areas -- Palo Alto & Lake Tahoe CA, & Tucson, AZ . We have nesting
Elf Owls, Vermilion Flycatchers and Broad Billed Hummingbirds at our new
Tucson home.  We showed Dave Cahlander some cool birds in Palo Alto a few
years ago.

Dick Carlson
"From" Minnesota, just temporarily living elsewhere for the last 39 years.

Richard C. Carlson
Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary Bureaucrat
Part-time Economist
Palo Alto & Lake Tahoe, CA & Tucson, AZ
rccarl@pacbell.net
Palo Alto: 650-949-9590
Tucson: 520-760-4935
Tahoe: 530-581-0624