[mou] Great Day in Dakota/hennepin counties

[Strix_varia@comcast.net]

I had the day off, so I spent the majority of today birding. Most of my time was spent at Black Dog Road and Old Cedar Bridge/Bass Ponds and I saw some great stuff. Things were really active and I saw a good variety of species. 

Things of Interest:

Three River Otters- under the bridge on Black Dog Road
Harris Sparrow- an Immature and an adult
Swamp Sparrow
N. Shoveler
Am. Wigeon
N. Pintail
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Ruby Crowned Kinglet

At about three thirty Roger Everhart and I made our way to 140th St Marsh. There wasn't much there, actually it was almost silent. But on the way home we took some backroads and found a small pond with a lot of ducks and a few shorebirds.

Long Billed Dowitcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Three Pectoral Sandpipers

This was just a great day. The weather was perfect and the birds were abundant. I ended up with fifty one species for the day.

Good Birding
Nick Tangen
Burnsville Minnesota