Last night. Severe weather. Huge thunderstorms, one after the other, all night long. The campground was evacuated for the tornado warnings. 27 people in a small stone shelter for two hours. We would have been in there with them, but we never got the evacuation call. We couldn’t hear the pounding on the door above the pounding of the storm. It all ended well. The tornadoes never got closer than two miles from us. The camp hosts agreed to pound on the walls at the back of the coach, where we sleep, if there is another evacuation tonight. I declare that I’m caught up at work. What with the heart thing and the family reunion, I got a little behind on File Reviews. There are still things to do, but as far as File Reviews go, I’m current again. We’ve found the famous Minnesota mosquitoes. They’re not very big yet, but there sure are a lot of them, and we’re still barely into Minnesota. We’ll go a little deeper tomorrow. The bird list for the Fargo/Moorhead area. The highlight: Bobolink. #531. We didn’t see as many Bobolinks as we expected. We thought we’d see hundreds. Instead, we saw one. But that was the most important one. The first one.
| Canada Goose |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| American White Pelican |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Osprey |
| Bald Eagle |
| Northern Harrier |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| American Kestrel |
| Killdeer |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Black Tern |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Mourning Dove |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Eastern Phoebe |
| Western Kingbird |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Blue Jay |
| American Crow |
| Horned Lark |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Marsh Wren |
| Eastern Bluebird |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Brown Thrasher |
| European Starling |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| Lark Sparrow |
| Lark Bunting |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Bobolink |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Common Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |