[mou] Hok-si-la (Goodhue Co.) trip report

[Steve Weston]

This morning 9 participants met for the 40th annual MRVAC Hok-si-la Warbler 
weekend.  We found approx. 57 speciesof birds, including the Summer tanager 
mentioned elsewhere.   Good weather, good company, and good birds made for a 
thoroughly enjoable day,  Other species of interested included:

Six sp of warblers: Yellow Rumped, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Blue-winged 
Warbler, N. Parulua,  C. Yellowthroat, N. Waterthrush
Broad-winged Hawk,
Caspian Tern
Forsters Tern
Cliff Swallow
Soitary & Spotted Sandpipers
Swainsons Thrush

In addition I found several more species at stops in Dakota Co. on the way 
back, including:
Dunlin (3-4) and 50+ Yellowlegs along 190th off of Biscayne.  2 more lesser 
Yellowlegs were the only shorebirds found at Jirik Sod Farms.

Lastly, at a camp fire that my next door neighbor held to celebrate the 
beautiful day, a Barred Owl landed in a tree about ten feet from the fire 
circle, before taking to the air out over our lake.

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