I enjoyed another birdy morning across the county. This fall weather is making up for some those rainy days I spent birding this past spring.
Carver Park migrants Double-crested Cormorant 49 Osprey 1 (only raptor seen across the county today besides a roadkill Red-tailed Hawk) Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Brown Creeper 2 House Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 20 Hermit Thrush 4 Gray Catbird 2 Tennessee Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 8 (as many as 11) Common Yellowthroat 1 Palm Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 36 Eastern Towhee 1 female(previous 2 Towhee this fall were male) Field Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 6 Lincoln's Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow ~25 Harris's Sparrow 3 (with flock of Junco, White-throated, 2 White-crowned Sparrow, and Towhee) White-crowned Sparrow 6 Dark-eyed Junco 85+ Purple Finch 3 Lake Waconia Redhead 9 Ruddy Duck 1 Red-necked Grebe 1 American Coot 1200 (conservative estimate) Bonaparte's Gull 2 Franklin's Gull 18 Ring-billed Gull 100+ New Germany Area Killdeer 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 24 Pectoral Sandpiper 6 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Tree Swallow ~170 Common Grackle ~50 Assumption Lake American Wigeon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Sedge Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird ~100 mainly 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