Everything is in the deep freeze up here in North Dakota and Northern
Minnesota. I may try a little seining on Friday in an open stretch of the
Ottertail River. Maybe I'll get lucky and get a burbot. I did some boreal
bird watching over the weekend on a remote back road in northern Minnesota
and got stopped by the border patrol. Apparently if I had kept going on the
road I was on, in another 200 yards I would have been in Manitoba. There
were no signs or anything and it sure surprised the heck out of me. Anyway
I didn't look like a terrorist so there was no problem. I finally got a
real jinx bird, the Northern Three-toed Woodpecker and it only took me 42
years! It was the last regular species of Minnesota bird that I hadn't
seen, I'm almost sorry I finally got it as it takes some of the excitement
out of all of it. Anyway enough non-fish talk. Take care everyone,
Mark Otnes
Fargo ND
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- austin texas
> >If you ever are looking for a fun way to spend a couple days and see some
> >really cool fish, the Edwards Plateau rocks, and when you can find water,
> >west Texas is pretty fun, too. Pretty funny, we hit five sites looking
for
> >bigscale logperch from the Colorado, but lucked into one of the best
sites
> >in the whole trip, right in downtown Austin! There's a small reservoir,
and
> >the habitat just below the dam is phenomenal- five darter taxa, and easy
> >access- there's a softball complex right there.
> >
> >
> >that would be barton springs. bone chilling water in the winter. dusky
> >darters are there. san marcos springs near by. great TEXAS snorkling!
>
> Plus, in downtown Austin there's a huge Mexican Freetail Bat colony that
> lives under a bridge (Congress St.??) that takes off every sunset in a big
> plume of swirling bats. Bats, my fave mammals!
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
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