A huge wave of warblers was present all day long in our spruces...hundreds of individuals of 22 different species. Much of our yard is an overgrown x-mas tree plantation, and these spruces always act as a migrant trap in the spring. We have had fairly good numbers of warblers all week long, but today was exceptional; the trees were literally alive with birds! Tennessee Warblers were especially numerous, and their singing was almost deafening in the morning. They came to the edge of the lake to drink and bathe by the dozens in the late morning. Redstarts, Bay Breasted, Blackpoll, Blackburnian, and Magnolia were also exceptionally numerous. In addition to the warblers, we had good numbers of least flycatchers and orioles (all Baltimore, but we were on high alert after Sandy Roggenkamp's Orchard Oriole sighting just a few miles south yesterday ;-) Ben Yokel Cotton (Melrude), MN **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)
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