Hi All, Rained out of work this morning so I spent about 3 hours this afternoon birding Jackson Co. and tallied a whopping 96 species with relatively little effort, including 19 warbler species overall. The highlight of the excursion was a scolding TUFTED TITMOUSE along Black Bridge Rd. near Jackson. Black Bridge Rd.--- 3 Blue-headed / 1 Philadelphia Vireos 1 TUFTED TITMOUSE 1 Swainson's Thrush 14 sp. of warblers, ---including 1 male Mourning, FOS Yellow-rumped, Magnolia / Chestnut-sided most numerous 3 Scarlet Tanagers Sandy Point Park--- Quiet overall, but did have calling Alder & Willow Flycatchers and my first Clay-colored Sparrow of the fall. South Heron Lake (from West Heron Unit)--- 8 species of waterfowl 1 Eared Grebe Thousands of American Coots and Franklin's Gulls 6 Caspian / 11 Black / 2 Forster's Terns 8 sp. of warblers at the point here --including Tennessee, 1 Cape May, and 11 Yellow 3 lingering Dickcissels Danny Akers Spirit Lake, IA [log in to unmask] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html