Migratory Bird Day

I was talking with a friend of mine about the birding by train event. Somehow we impulsively decided to go to Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge for a guided bird tour on Migratory Bird Day. We arrived before 8 a.m. and had a great guide. All the people on the tour seemed agreeable and friendly. We saw a total of 37 species of birds. I can't remember them all but besides these two eagles perched on top of these two tamarack trees we saw Eastern Towhee, American Robins, Chipping sparrow, Blue birds, yellow warbler, yellow bellied sap sucker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, brown thrasher, black and white warbler, ruby crowned kinglets, Northern Flicker, broad winged hawks, turkey vultures, green heron, great blue heron, palm warbler, Nashville warbler, Crows, Blue jays, white breasted nuthatches, sand hill cranes, loons, Baltimore Oriole, rose breasted gross beaks, and goldfinches. We heard chorus frogs and a sora rail. We saw coyote scat. All this was on the Mahnomen Trail which runs near Rice Lake. So if you go on Mahnomen Trail, please keep an eye out for  my red eye glasses - I lost them somewhere on that trail.