[mou] Common Moorhen

[Peter Hudleston]

On Monday May 31 I found a Common Moorhen in Cottage Grove.  It was on a 
pond (the smaller and most easterly body of water) on the north side of 
100th St S, where the road crosses a marsh, about 1/3 mile east of 
Jamaica Ave.  I had visited the area to check for Loggerhead Shrikes, 
which have been seen in years past along 100th St S where it runs 
parallel to the railroad tracks, although it has been several years 
since I had seen one there.  I did find a shrike at the point where the 
railroad track and road diverge (or converge going east), just up the 
hill from the marsh.   In the same area was a Swainson's Hawk, which is 
a regular summer resident here.