Last night we got skunked on our owl survey. We heard zero owls. I almost thought I had one but it turned out to be a dog with an owlish woooof woooof. Our route though East Bethel had an outrageous amount of traffic noise. In one five minute period we had 66 cars go by. I could have had an owl perched on my shoulder and might not have been able to hear it at the intersection of Highway 65 and Klondike. We did hear lot of chorus frogs, a few spring peepers, and several mink frogs. So today it was nice to go on a bird hike and see actual birds. I made a list of everything we saw and promptly lost the list. So this is from memory: Osprey (trying to hunt fish around the edges of an ice covered lake), a pair of Trumpeter Swans, robins, song sparrows, red winged blackbirds, turkey vultures, a pair of bluebirds (checking out a wood duck house), wood ducks (we saw the pair fly to the house. The female slammed inside and the male patiently waited in the water while she laid an an egg and off they went together again), mallards, Canadian geese, ring billed gull, herring gull, killdeer, crow, pied billed grebe, and scaup. This was a great way to start a Saturday.
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