Activity once again was quite good at both Rapids Lake and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Highlights included 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers making an odd attempt to harass a Great Horned Owl and 2 Mourning Warblers feeding within 10 feet of each other on the ground below a Golden-winged Warbler at the arboretum.
Rapids Lake visitor center area select count Bald Eagle 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 3 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 House Wren 6 Winter Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 Swainson's Thrush 3 Gray Catbird 5 Golden-winged Warbler 1 male Blue-winged Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 19+ Nashville Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 14+ Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Magnolia Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Blackburnian Warbler 6 Pine Warbler 1 male Blackpoll Warbler 1 male Black and White Warbler 1 American Redstart 8+ Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 8+ Lark Sparrow 4 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Harris's Sparrow 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 20+ Indigo Bunting 1 Baltimore Oriole 12+ (at least 6 of these flocked together likely still continuing north) Minnesota Landscape Arboretum select count Cooper's Hawk 1 Caspian Tern 7 (all flying over) Least Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 House Wren 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9 Golden-winged Warbler 1 male Tennessee Warbler 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 male Magnolia Warbler 2 male and female Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Blacck-throated Green Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 8 Bay-breasted Warbler 3 males, 2 moving together and 1 alone Blackpoll Warbler 5 males Black and White Warbler 2 American Redstart 7 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 4 Mourning Warbler 2 males Common Yellowthroat 8 Wilson's Warbler 2 male and female ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html