In the past 4 days I've visited Carpenter Nature Center (Hastings), Hyland Park Reserve (Bloomington), Bass Ponds/Old Cedar (MNRVNWR), and Ft. Snelling. The variety and number of warblers has been dwindling rapidly. There were still many ruby-crown kinglets and yellow-rumps, and yesterday had a good number of Nashville and Tennessee, but there were only 2 redstarts the whole time. White-throats were the most numerous sparrows, though in a couple of places there were actually song sparrows singing. I've seen no fox sparrows since a walk at Wood Lake last week. Juncos have been making more appearances, along with red-breasted nuthatches. Not counting the flocking robins, there were only bluebirds and 2 Swainson's for thrushes. Great blue herons, little green herons, and egrets are still around, again in small numbers. At old Cedar, a few Trumpeter swans took flight heading upriver, as did a flock of cowbirds at Ft. Snelling. Only 2 yellow-bellied sapsuckers appeared, and flickers were nowhere this week. One brown creeper showed up right in St. Paul, in the Merriam Park area. It will be interesting to see who's left after the upcoming drop in temperature.
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