We did our "Tower Day" on the 1st and Lance & Roseanne Heaton joined us for some birding. We had 59 species.
Our Purple Martin Colony and our Tree Swallows have left, a lot of our Baltimore Orioles, a lot of our Barn Swallows and a lot of our RB Grosbeaks have left. We have a few migrants coming through. 1) Blue Jay 2) Northern Cardinal 3) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (many) 4) Common Nighthawk -19 5) American White Pelican 6) Pied-billed Grebe -1 7) Gray Catbird -3 8) Ring-billed Gull 9) American Robin 10) Belted Kingfisher-1 11) House Wren 12) American Crow 13) Northern Flicker-5 14) WB Nuthatch 15) Pileated WP -2 16) RB Grosbeak-8 17) Green Heron-1 18) RN Pheasant 19) House Finch-many 20) BC Chickadee-many 21) American Goldfinch-many 22) Eastern Phoebe- 2 23) Mallard-3 24) Franklin's Gull -many 25) Cedar Waxwing-20 26) Great Egret 27) Mourning Dove 28) Barn Swallow 29) Canada Goose 30) Rock Dove 31) Downy WP-many 32) DC Cormant-3 33) RW Balckbird-many 34) Red-tailed Hawk-2 35) Red-bellied WP-4 36) Blue-headed Vireo-1 37) GB Heron-1 38) Nashville Warbler-1 39) Tennessee Warbler-1 40) Wood Duck-4 41) Baltimore Oriole-6 42) Killdeer-1 43) Chipping Sparrow-many 44) Common Yellowthroat-1 45) Hairy WP 46) Red-eyed Vireo-2 47) Common Grackle 48) EW Pewee-1 49) Black & White Warbler-1 50) Least Flycatcher-1 51) Trumpeter Swan-2 52) BG Gnatcher-1 53) Cooper's Hawk- 4 Passes 54) American Redstart-2 55) Bald Eagle-1 56) TV-2 57) Tree Swallow-6 58) Mourning Warbler-1 59) E Starling-1 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html