[mou] purgatory creek

[Steve Weston]

On Monday evening I stopped at the Purgatory Creek lake behind the Flagship 
office building in Eden Prairie and found:

Caspian Tern (1)
Marsh Wren
Spotted Sandpiper
Ospray
Ring-billed Gulls (272)  where are they nesting?
unk. Gull: larger than RBGU's but not as large as a Herring.  Bill is quite 
long and heavier than the RBGU's.   Head is flatter also.   Looks like it is 
molting from immature plumage.  Color is quite light with splotches of light 
brown.  Wing tips and tail appear to be brown, but again not very dark. 
Head shape and size suggested a California Gull, but color is a mystery.  I 
had hoped to be able to get out there today (tuesday) and take a picture, 
but that did not happen.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
sweston2@comcast.net