I was up in Beltrami Island State Park (Lake of the Woods County) on Tuesday helping out with a DNR ECS training session and saw the following highlights: Spruce Grouse 1 female with 3 fledglings: http://williamhblackburniibirding.shutterfly.com/pictures/165 http://williamhblackburniibirding.shutterfly.com/pictures/164 Cooper's Hawk (CR 3) Short-eared Owl 2 (CR 1) Great Horned Owl 1 (CR 87) Great Gray Owl 1 (Pitt Grade Trail) Eastern Whip-poor-will 2 seen many heard (CR 87) Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 (Hogsback Trail) Gray Jay 2 with 1 juvenile (Pitt Grade Trail) Boreal Chickadee 2 (Pitt Grade Trail) Grasshopper Sparrow (CR 3) Red Crossbill 9 (Pitt Grade Trail) White-winged Crossbill 3 (Pitt Grade Trail) Purple Finch 2 pair (Hogsback Trail) Today in Polk County I had the following highlights at the Parnell Impoundment on CR 17 east of US 75: Fledglings: Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Others: Trumpeter Swan pair Green-winged Teal Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Black-billed Cuckoo Willow Flycatcher 3+ Dickcissel many Le Conte's Sparrow 2 Orchard Oriole Bill Blackburn Minnesota Audubon Warren, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html