[mou] weekend finds

[linda]

(did a 2-day birding jaunt on or near the Mississippi)

Spring Lake Park archery unit, Sat. AM:
brown thrashers, yellow warblers, clay-colored sparrows, displaying 
red-tail hawks, rose-breasted grosbeak, ovenbirds, house wrens; also 
blue-gray gnatcatchers, yellow-rumped warblers

Bluff Country (driving through Weaver Dunes, then along the "Weaver to 
Beaver" route into the Whitewater area, with occasional hikes) Sunday:
grasshopper, field, song, tree, and chipping sparrows; bald eagles, 
several; turkey vultures, many; Cooper's hawk (careening over the hood 
of our vehicle on Hwy 61, in pursuit of food!); terns doing high-dives 
for fish; great blue and little green herons;tree and cliff swallows in 
abundance; Canada goslings; killdeer; sandhill crane; ovenbirds; 
white-throated and white-crowned sparrows; winter wren, heard; E. 
towhees; rose-breasted grosbeaks (m. and f.), Baltimore orioles; r-c 
kinglets and b-g gnatcatchers; y-b sapsuckers; hummingbird; 
yellow-rumped warblers, many; Tennessee warblers, many heard; common 
yellowthroat heard; also many yellow warblers heard, and seen; redstart; 
black and white warbler; magnolia warbler; and several blue-winged warblers

also checked both Hok-si-la and the 140th St. marsh, but saw nothing 
unusual at the time--will check for that mockingbird, soon!

Linda Whyte