[mou] Buff-breasted SP's/Dakota County

[Dedrick Benz]

Chris Hockema and I toured Dakota, Goodhue, and Wabasha Counties today in
search of Buff-breasted Sandpipers and Olive-sided Flycatchers.

DAKOTA COUNTY:

Jirik:
2 distant Buff-breasted Sandpipers
3 American Golden Plovers

Castle Rock:
4 or 5 Buff-breasted Sandpipers (found by driving the gravel road that
parallels 3 to the West)
1 one-legged American Golden-Plover

Farmington:
one Eurasian Collared-Dove on a power line along Division St. between Oak
and Elm

GOODHUE COUNTY:

Pond at turnoff to Treasure Island Casino and Prairie Island Nuclear Power
Plant:
10ish Least Sandpipers
1 Semipalmated Plover
1 Caspian Tern
several hundred American White Pelicans

Treasure Island Sewage Ponds (aah! Birding a sewage pond between a Nuclear
Power Plant and a Casino - that's getting back to nature!):
1st Winter Bonaparte's Gull

Dedrick's secret spot along Canon River bike trail:
N. Waterthrush

WABASHA COUNTY:

1 Juvenile Peregrine Falcon - flyby at CR 84, 1 mile east of it's southern
terminus with HWY 61.




Oh, yeah, Olive-sided Flycatchers:  We saw snags, we saw birds, we saw birds
on snags.  But we saw no Olive-sided Flycatchers.  We did have a lot of fun
though.


Dedrick Benz
Winona, MN