Sorry- should have clarified - Interstate State Park is in Minnesota - and that's where we saw the majority of our "first of year" species including the hermit thrush and yellow-rumped warblers.
Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:23 PM, "Christine Hills" <chi...@chc-pa.org> wrote: > Randy and I led a trip up to Crex Meadows today. Temperatures in the 30's > so a bit on the cold side! The water is starting to open up at Crex Meadows > itself but not much there yet besides sandhill cranes, ring-billed ducks, > trumpeter swans, great blue heron, hooded mergansers , 3 northern shrikes, > coots, shovelers, and a blue winged teal. The better birding was at > Interstate State Park where we saw pied billed grebe, eastern bluebirds, > phoebe, cormorants, junco, hermit thrush, brown creeper, and yellow rump > warblers. Along the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix, we also added song > sparrows, ruby and golden crowned kinglets, kingfisher, and bufflehead. We > found a gorgeous male goldeneye sitting on an ice flue just south of > Grantsburg east on County Z. Total of 5 species of woodpeckers (pileated, > hairy, downy, flicker, red-bellied). Lots of harriers, osprey, bald eagles, > kestrels. Total count was 49 species. Definitely seeing spring species > arriving! > > > > Chris Hills > > > ---- > 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
