[mou] Minnehaha Creek: East of L. Minnetonka to St Louis Park

[Derric Pennington]

This morning was an absolutely wonderful to be outside poking along  
the urban 'wilds'.  Besides the usual suspects, I surveyed the  
following noteworthy species:

Gray Catbird (2)
Yellow Warbler (1)
House Wren (3)
Barn Swallow (5)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (several)
Wood Duck (7)

Also of interest was a Cooper's hawk and an American crow in an  
intense aerial dogfight!

Good birding,

Derric Pennington
PhD Candidate
Conservation Biology Program
University of Minnesota
ph: 612-624-4796
penn0107@umn.edu

"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with  
forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world,  
and am free." --Wendell Berry

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a  
confession of character." --Ralph Waldo Emerson