[Mnbird] Stearns Co Sat / Sherburne NWR Sun

Betsy Beneke birderbetsy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 11:14:16 CDT 2015


I birded along the west and north borders of Stearns County yesterday, and
have to say it was a pretty quiet day.  The large numbers of waterfowl in
the area a week ago seemed to be gone.

At Paynesville, the water treatment ponds were nearly devoid of birds -
just a few pairs of geese, mallards and one pair of bufflehead.  The
wetland on the south side of Hwy. 23 where you turn for the ponds that was
full of shorebirds last year, yesterday morning, had only blackbirds,
killdeers and a single greater yellowlegs.  So far.  Quite a number of
ring-billed gulls were in the fields, following tractors.  And there was a
single yellow-rumped warbler at the Lions Club park, along with a bunch of
wood ducks, just off Burr St. in town.

A single herring gull was on Kenna WPA along Hwy. 71, north of Elrosa.

Another WPA, northeast of Sauk Centre off Hwy. 28, had quite a variety of
ducks on it, along with a few yellow-headed blackbirds and an eastern
phoebe on the east side.  There were also 3 tree swallows there.

At Sherburne NWR this morning, I had 45 species - most interesting were a
single field sparrow, a single brown thrasher, a large flock of tundra
swans flying over, tree sparrows and tree swallows.  There were MANY
American robins and northern flickers.

Betsy Beneke
St. Cloud, Benton County
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