I found a very vocal male Prothonotary Warbler at 9:45 AM on a small island in the central portion of Veterans Memorial Park. The island is on the south side of the trail that runs from the southern end of the parking lot off of Portland Avenue and runs east through the central of the park, between the large marsh to the north and Legion Lake to the south. The Prothonotary Warbler was singing loudly and examining the dead snags on the island that has usually had nesting Tree Swallows.
Also present were two Mourning Warblers and many different flycatchers such as Great-crested, Alder, and Least Flycatchers, Swainson's Thrush, Warbling and Red-eyed Vireos, Indigo Bunting, and resident Yellow Warblers, Common Yellow-throats and American Redstarts. Veterans Memorial Park is found between Portland and 11th Avenues and 66th Street and Hwy 62 in Richfield. Scott B. Meyer Richfield, Hennepin County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
