On Saturday (9/2/06), Jim Hughes and I saw a flock of 37 Black-billed Magpies on the roads just southwest of Farmes Pool at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in Marshall County. The next day (9/3/06), we saw 19 Black-billed Magpies along a short stretch of Highway 32 north of Fertile in Polk County.
On 9/3/06, we saw 24 Cattle Egrets just north of Interstate 94 at milepost 63 in Ottertail County. The birds were feeding among a herd of buffalo. Early on 9/2/06, we also found Common Moorhen and Least Bittern at the previously reported Murphy-Hanrehan location (between markers 34 and 35) in Scott County. Tom Nelson Ramsey County
