Birds this week in the county Tuesday Oct. 4 Carver Park
Great Blue Heron 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 American Woodcock 2 Eastern Phoebe 2 Brown Creeper 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 Hermit Thrush 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 Fox Sparrow 3 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 25 Harris's Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 20 Lake Waconia American Coot 100 Franklin's Gull 10 Ring-billed Gull ~60 Unidentified Gull ~300 Rural Carver County Broad-winged Hawk 3 American Kestrel 1 Tree Swallow ~150 New Germany area Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 3 Osprey 1 American Golden Plover 1 Killdeer ~40 Lesser Yellowlegs 13 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Thurs. Oct. 6 Landscape Arboretum Franklin's Gull 6 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Hermit Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 8 Lincoln's Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 7 White-throated Sparrow 28 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Rapids Lake MVNWR Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 6 Lincoln's Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 35 Harris's Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Sat. Oct. 8 Rapids Lake MVNWR House Wren 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Fox Sparrow 10 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Indigo Bunting 1 Landscape Arboretum Eastern Phoebe 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Sun. Oct. 9 Carver Park Trumpeter Swan family took a couple practice flights Pied-billed Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 48 Great Egret 7 Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 5 Ring-billed Gull 9 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Northern Flicker 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 House Wren 2 Sedge Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 17 Hermit Thrush 3 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 3 Palm Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 33 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 5 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow ~50 Harris's Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 6 Dark-eyed Junco ~60 Red-winged Blackbird ~30 Common Grackle 490 (roosted in forest edge, counted as they began streaming southeast) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html