Amazing. Is this a one-day record for an individual warbler watcher in MN? Warren Woessner
________________________________________ From: Minnesota Birds [MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU] on behalf of Peder Svingen [psvin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:00 AM To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] 26 warbler species at Park Point, Duluth, 5/30/2013 Overnight rain showers and fog throughout the day, with temperatures in the low 40s and ENE winds 5-10 mph, produced a good variety of warblers and other passerines at Park Point Recreation Area and adjacent Southworth Marsh today (30 May). Empids and Cedar Waxwings arrived in good numbers for the first time this spring at Park Point, and several mixed flocks of shorebirds were found on the beach. Sparky Stensaas found 6 Whimbrel at the Beach House that disappeared in the fog minutes later. Jan and Larry Kraemer discovered an "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler during their early morning Warbler Walk sponsored by Duluth Audubon. Perhaps the most unexpected bird of the day was an Evening Grosbeak found by Barb Akre as it foraged on the ground in a parking lot. Although the day's total of 441 individual warblers was less than 10% of the total seen during the incredible fallout on 19 May, all 26 of the warbler species normally seen each spring at Duluth were found between the Recreation Area and Southworth Marsh today. Unlike the fallout conditions for four consecutive days earlier this month (19-22 May), warblers were mostly foraging at normal heights above the ground, especially those found in pine and spruce. Many began singing in the early afternoon when the fog temporarily lifted and it warmed up a degree or two, but this was short-lived. Warblers were still silently foraging when I finally left the Recreation Area at 7:20 P.M. The following totals include birds seen with Jan and Larry Kraemer in the afternoon at the Recreation Area and my own observations at Southworth Marsh in the morning. Karl Bardon and others were also birding Park Point, and may have different totals and/or additional noteworthy sightings. 2 Golden-winged Warbler (male and female) 10 Tennessee Warbler 2 Orange-crowned Warbler (carefully identified at eye level) 10 Nashville Warbler 6 Northern Parula 55 Yellow Warbler 40 Chestnut-sided Warbler 68 Magnolia Warbler (second highest northbound count) 2 Cape May Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler (male found by Mike Hendrickson) 15 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 10 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Pine Warbler (female seen near singing male) 8 Palm Warbler (good number for this late in the season) 3 Bay-breasted Warbler 33 Blackpoll Warbler 4 Black-and-white Warbler 84 American Redstart 2 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 2 Connecticut Warbler (singing and seen) 2 Mourning Warbler 18 Common Yellowthroat 48 Wilson's Warbler 11 Canada Warbler -- Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN psvin...@gmail.co m ---- 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
