Hello Birders, Diane & I toured Springbrook Nature Center today and it was pleasant. We saw a male *Rose-breasted Grosbeak* at 3 ft (on the feeder, through the window)
Also saw: *Swainson's Thrush* *Lincolns Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Ovenbird Black & White Warbler Am. Redstart Wilson's warbler* *Baltimore Oriole* Later, we went to Coon Rapids Dam regional Park and had a fallout: Near the Boat trailer parking lot we had: *Scarlet Tanager *- 2 males at eye level for 5 minutes. Awesome to see 2 in the same binocular field! *Great-crested Flycatcher* - at eye level *Palm, Yellow, & Yellow rumps* on the ground Finally, at Lot 5 I slowed for what I thought was a flock of sparrows at the road edge where it meets the trail. Instead we had about* 30 warblers on the ground!* We viewed them for about 10 minutes from 30 feet at eye level. What a treat! Included were: *Blackburnian* -1 male ready for combustion *Magnolia *- 3 gorgeous males *Chestnut-sided* - 2 males *Yellow *- 2 males *Nashville* - about a dozen *Tennessee* - about a dozen *Yellow-rumps* - several *Indigo Bunting* - a pair (FOY), just for added color Chipping sparrow -1 for a reality check. What an awe-inspiring end to a great, but brief day birding! -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan Saint Paul's Westside ---- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -* Leo Tolstoy* A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. - *Lucius Annaeus Seneca* ---- ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
