Hello Birders, Late report here. I have been checking out Lilydale Rd. the last few mornings and saw a nice assortment of residents and migrants. I was focused between the train bridge on the east end (that crosses the east end of Pickerel Lake) all the way to the boat launch area) Sunday and Monday mornings turned up:
*Best finds:* Black crowned Night heron (2) - FOY N. Parula (1) - FOY Bay breasted warbler (1) - very faint reddish wash on flanks - FOY Lincolns sparrow - (2) FOY - one had only one eye Black & White Warbler (1) Olive Sided flycatcher (1) Empids - several silent ones I didn't attempt to speciate Red-breasted Nuthatch (1) *Other good finds:* Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Downy woodpecker Red-bellied woodpecker Flicker Cardinal Blue Jays R-T hawk White-breasted nuthatch Am. Robins - large juvenile flock Song Sparrows Goldfinches - lots House finches - decent flock I might be forgetting one or two more regulars here *Non birds:* deer: 3 bucks in velvet (Sunday morning) - a nice 6 pointer, an irregular with about 6pts, and a 'unicorn' forkhorn with one broken off antler all traveling together. Good Birding to all! -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan on St. Paul's Westside 651-308-0234 cell Are You Russian or American?? When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil. "A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070905/57c39efd/attachment.html