It took a combined effort at both Carver Park(3 hours) and the Landscape Arboretum(a little over an hour) to turn up 16 warbler and 5 vireo species this morning. Though one wave at the arboretum and one loose wave at Carver Park added 9 of the warbler and 2 of the vireo species. Without Kinglets or Yellow-rumped Warbler here yet to fill some of the voids, it was otherwise fairly quiet. It was nice hearing the sound of Sandhill Cranes at Carver Park again, as their call always reminds me of early spring birding.
Carver Park complete list Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan 7 (cygnets slowly growing) Wood Duck Mallard Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Wild Turkey 8 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 4 Green Heron 1 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (I did not notice this bird in a thick hedge within 15 feet of me for 10 minutes until he jumped out after a Chickadee. I think he was successful.) Sandhill Crane 2 Mourning Dove Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Alder/Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbler Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 4 Blue Jay American Crown Tree Swallow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush 5 American Robin Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing Northern Waterthrush 2 Golden-winged Warbler 1 male Black and White Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 4 (including a nearly full breeding plumage male) Nashville Warbler 6 Common Yellowthroat American Redstart 6 (including 4 adult male) Magnolia Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 male Field, Song, Swamp Sparrow Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak American Goldfinch Arboretum select count Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Black and White Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 4 (including a partial fall plumage male) Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 5 Common Yellowthroat American Redstart 3 Northern Parula 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 4+ Canada Warbler 1 female Wilson's Warbler 1 male Indigo Bunting 2 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html