[mou] Metro Birding

[Steve Weston]

I am definitely seeing Dickcissels in larger numbers than I have ever seen 
them before and in locations that I know that they have not been in the last 
five or six years.  I believe the abundance of Dickcissels is evidence that 
they are no longer being persecuted in southern South America where they 
winter.

On Sunday night I went down to Miesville Ravine in the evening especially to 
find Whip-poor-wills.  They readilly answered my whistle from across the 
Canon River.  Also we had several Wood Thrushes calling from near the 
parking lot.   At the top of the hill to the west of the ravine near the red 
farm building with white trim I found a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers.

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