[mou] birds around the metro

[Steve Weston]

On Friday I came home and noticed a bird in a tree next to the drive way. 
Walking close I watched a Red-breasted Nuthatch on the elm tree.  It seemed 
totally unconcerned that I was standing about five feet away.

On Saturday I got out for a couple of hours checking out some small wood 
lots adjacent to farm fields in Rosemount.  It was quiet and I found few 
birds.  The trees were thick with fruit.  I have never seen the black 
cherries as plentiful.  I found plum trees so thick with fruit that even the 
bugs had failed to get to them all.  I collected a handful of perfect little 
plums, sweet and untouched by pests.  I brought them home to eat later.

I also got out to the sod farms in Empire (Jirik and Braun on CR66).  I 
didn't find as much as Jim Mattsson, who did a good job of describing what 
was out there.

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