Andy Forbes and I had a singing Bell's Vireo just west of Big Stone NWR=
on
Saturday evening. Go south from HQ on route 15 a couple of miles to th=
e
base of the big hill, then turn right at the crossroad on to route 15, =
and
go 1.1 miles past the Yellow Bank River bridge to where the road overlo=
oks
both the refuge on the north and the Yellow Bank River on the south
(Pileated often here). The bird was on the south side of the road alon=
g
with a calling BBCuckoo. This was part of a long big day starting at 3=
.30
a.m. in Sherburne County and looping out to Big Stone country. We reco=
rded
144 species including 4 peep species and a Ruddy Turnstone at Albany se=
wage
ponds, Yellow-bellied Fly and Connecticut Warbler at St. John's, and Gr=
ey
Partridge and Swainson's Hawk in Kandiyohi County.
Bob Russell=
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