Earlier this morning I heard and then saw a male Blue Grosbeak in another location in Blue Earth county.  The bird was singing from the top of a dead tree along a large gravel mining pit close to the little town of Cambria in the far north western part of the county along Hwy. 68.  There's a road that leads to the mine off of Hwy. 68 between Co. Rd. 6 and 239th St.  You can't miss the mine, it's huge.  I could easily hear the male singing from the gravel road that leads to the mine.  A scope was required to see the bird in the tree top on the opposite side of the mine. 

Brian Smith
Sleepy Eye, MN

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