I have continued to be intrigued by the numbers and new locations of Blue Grosbeaks, so I have continued searching for them. I haven't found any new birds myself but I do have some updates: - I again observed the male BLGR at the Danube brush site on 8-7-14. I did not check up on all the other birds I found a week ago. - I did not find the BLGR at Gneiss Outcrops SNA in Chippewa County on 8-7- 14. - Garrett Wee told me he found a male BLGR in Marshall's city limits on the very northwestern edge of town on London Road on 8-6-14. Garrett is the birder who found the Blue Grosbeaks at the Cottonwood sewage ponds the last two years, and this year he found a nest there as well. I recently wrote a blog post showing how I used satellite imagery to locate probable habitats within this seemingly expanding range of this species. You can see photos of the satellite images and maps I used as well as BLGR pictures from around Danube at the following link: http://www.aboywhocriedheron.com/2014/08/05/investigating-a-probable- range-and-population-expansion-of-the-blue-grosbeak-in-minnesota/. The Danube birds are just 6 miles from Kandiyohi County - hopefully one will make the jump soon if it hasn't already! Josh Wallestad http://www.aboywhocriedheron.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html