Hi everyone,

  John Hockema and I birded today in LeSueur County. At Sakatah State Park, there was a singing Cerulean Warbler at the campground, and we observed a fly-over Swainson's Hawk.

 

  We stopped in Rice County, just west of Warsaw to observe many terns on the Cannon River. There were many Forsters and Caspian Terns present, along with a couple of Franklin's Gulls. We also had a single Red-headed Woodpecker along CR 71 in Rice Co.

 

  Then we birded quite awhile at the state park and around the lakes. Highlights:

Black, Caspian and Forsters Terns, as well as a Red-necked Grebe on Lake Tustin near Elysian.

4 Eared Grebes and one Bonaparte's Gull on Scotch Lake near Cleveland.

16 species of warbler between the two counties.

Harris and White-crowned Sparrows around Kasota Prairie.

2 Trumpeter Swans along CR 16 east of Marysburg.

Other FOY's Eastern Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, Chestnut-sided Warbler, American Redstart, Baltimore Oriole, Virginia Rail and Green Heron.

 

All together between the two counties we tallied 116 species.

 

Good birding!

 

Dave Bartkey

Faribault, MN

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