[mou] Great-tailed Grackles in Jackson County

[John Green]

John and I just returned from a prairie field tour with the DNR's 
Scientific and Natural Areas program plus some extra birding.

On June 24th we found a family of Great-tailed Grackles - one adult 
male, one adult female, and one juvenile bird (dark eye, tail shorter 
than female) in Minneota Township (T101N, R36W, Sec. 29).  They were 
near the same area that John Ellis reported Great-tailed Grackles on 
June 15th  The family group was feeding in a closely grazed pasture with 
some Black Angus cattle.  It was on County #4 just 0.2 miles east of the 
junction of Co. #4 and 440th Ave. This spot is just west of the junction 
of Co. #4 and Minn. 86.

Jan Green