I was working in the North Shore area from Tuesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon. Small warbler flocks are starting to migrate through with frequency. Regarding Canada Warbler, I woke up on Wednesday to an individual singing at the Temperance River campsites on the Sawbill Trail. I walked out to the road and found an active group of migrants that included at least 1 more Canada Warbler as well as Black-and-white, Palm, Cape May, Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, American Redstart, and Red-eyed Vireo (multiples of some species). The flock was accompanied by chickadees, nuthatches, and a couple of Eastern Phoebes that may or may not have been associating. There were likely other species present, but the canopy made viewing difficult. An hour or so later, I was on the Superior Hiking Trail between Oberg Mtn and Lutsen where I heard a Canada Warbler singing about a mile in from the Oberg parking lot then saw another Canada Warbler around noon about 3.5 miles in from the same lot. So, Canada Warblers are definitely migrating now and some individuals are still singing in the morning. I heard very few other singing warblers and was disappointed to miss out on Black-throated Blue Warbler. Also worth mentioning was an Indigo Bunting singing on the spur trail at the Lutsen end of that stretch in the right of way cut for the gondola and a Common Nighthawk roosting on a limb at the intersection where that spur meets the main trail around 3:30 pm.
Regarding habitats, all Canada Warbler observations were in mixed pole-to-mature conifer/aspen forest at various elevations, but that doesn't really narrow it down much in the area between Tofte and Lutsen. Shawn Conrad La Prairie On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Rick Schroeder <ricksch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Greetings - I will be visiting the Gunflint Trail area from Aug. 27-31. I > am hoping > to see Canada warbler, and wanted to ask a few questions. I have read that > this > warbler is an early migrant - will they still be moving through in late > August? Any > suggestions on specific areas or habitats, or are they more generalists > during > migration? > Thanks for any help, > > Rick Schroeder > Colorado > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
