[mou-net] Hok-si-lah MRVAC Trip
Today, Saturday, 23 participants enjoyed a fine day of birding around Frontenac, mostly at Hok-si-lah park and on Sand Point. I counted a total of 76 species, although other species seen by participants were not listed. We had 16 warbler species. Almost all the warblers we saw were Yellow-rumps. With the exception of the Black and White Warblers and No. Waterthrush, all othe warblers were of one or two birds. Most notible miss: Bluebirds. The weather was cool, but dry. The morning was quite windy. Bird activity was slow. Most of the time it was quite quiet. My highlights included a Blue-gray Gnatchatcher finishing out a beautiful camophloged nest, the same color as the bark of the tree. We also found a brown Creeper building a nest under some peeling bark right by the trail (a county first record). Bird List: Am Wht. Pelican DC Cormorant Gr. Blue Heron Greeen Heron Canada Goose (on Frontenac Lake) Mallard BW Teal Wood Duck Red Breasted Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle (on nest) Coopers Hawk Peregrin Flacon Willet Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Bonepartes Gull Fosters Tern Caspian Tern Rock Pigeon Conomon Nigthawk Chimney Swift B. Kingfisher N. Flicker YB Sapsucker Downy WP Hairy WP Red-bellied WP Least Flycatcher Great-creasted FC E. Phoebe Purple Martin Barn, Cliff, Rough-winged, & Tree Swallows Crow Blue Jay Chickadee WB Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Robin Swainson;s thrush Warbling Vireo Blue-winged W (Golden-wing W) seen by others in group Tennessee W Nashville W Yellow W, Chestnut-sided W Yellow-rumped W Blackburnian W (male seen only by me) Prothonotory W (seen only by me) Palm W Blackpoll W Black & White W Redstart (heard) Ovenbird N. Waterthrush C. Yellowthroat (Scarlet Tanager) seen by others not me. Chipping Sp Field Sp Song Sp White Throated Sp RB Grosbeak Cardinal Red-winged BB Grackle, Cowbird, B. Oriole Am Goldfinch Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Cerulean Warbler, Swainson's Hawk, etc. - LeSueur Co.
Hi everyone, John Hockema and I birded today in LeSueur County. At Sakatah State Park, there was a singing Cerulean Warbler at the campground, and we observed a fly-over Swainson's Hawk. We stopped in Rice County, just west of Warsaw to observe many terns on the Cannon River. There were many Forsters and Caspian Terns present, along with a couple of Franklin's Gulls. We also had a single Red-headed Woodpecker along CR 71 in Rice Co. Then we birded quite awhile at the state park and around the lakes. Highlights: Black, Caspian and Forsters Terns, as well as a Red-necked Grebe on Lake Tustin near Elysian. 4 Eared Grebes and one Bonaparte's Gull on Scotch Lake near Cleveland. 16 species of warbler between the two counties. Harris and White-crowned Sparrows around Kasota Prairie. 2 Trumpeter Swans along CR 16 east of Marysburg. Other FOY's Eastern Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, Chestnut-sided Warbler, American Redstart, Baltimore Oriole, Virginia Rail and Green Heron. All together between the two counties we tallied 116 species. Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN screech...@q.com Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Finally a Hummer!! - Corcoran
Just got home from a little birding and a Male Ruby-throated just pulled up to the feeder!! I'm in need of a job!! Please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlongtin Thank you.. -- Andrew Longtin Corcoran (Hennepin Co.) Minnesota See my WEB pages at: www.birderguy.com Email: birder...@comcast.net Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory Supporter http://www.hawkridge.org Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Member http://www.moumn.org Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) Member http://www.hmana.org Cornell Lab Member (PFW) http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] FW: Tufted Titmouse and Harris's Sparrow, Cannon Falls, Goodhue Cty
_ From: Laura Coble [mailto:shearwate...@frontiernet.net] Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:52 PM To: 'mnb...@lists.mnbird.net' Subject: Tufted Titmouse and Harris's Sparrow, Cannon Falls, Goodhue Cty This morning around 7:30, I was delighted to see a Harris's Sparrow feeding on the ground below my feeders. A moment later, I was astonished to see a Tufted Titmouse fly in! It fed for a bit, drank some water, and left, singing its "Peter, Peter, Peter" as it flew. This is only the third time I've had a Harris's Sparrow at my feeders, and I've never had a TUTI before, though I saw many when I lived in Michigan. From the MN Christmas Counts and other reports, there is evidence that a small number of titmice are spending the winter in Goodhue and Rice County, and some are nesting, as well. It's very likely I won't see this bird again, but I'm glad I was looking out the kitchen window at the time it appeared! About 15 minutes later, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole and Indigo Bunting showed up among my regular flock of 20 A. Goldfinches and a pair of Pine Siskins. What a colorful sight! The siskins have stayed over from the flock that visited my feeders all winter, and I'm hoping they will nest somewhere in the woods close to Cannon Falls. Laura Coble Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Carver Park - Northern Mockingbird
We went to Carver Park Reserve and walked from about 1:30-4:00 on the unpaved trail off of Carver Park Road. When we got to the scenic overlook northeast of Lundsten Lake we noticed an unusual and saw that it was a Northern Mockingbird. We observed it sitting in a tree by the overlook until it flew off and we could clearly see the white patches on its wings. Other things we saw there were: Palm Warblers Yellow-Rumped Warblers Clay-Colored Sparrows Field Sparrows Eastern Kingbirds Northern Flicker Brown Thrasher White-Throated Sparrows Chipping Sparrows Trumpeter Swan Brown-Headed Cowbirds Sedge Wren and a big Raccoon eating in the creek! -Ben Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Willets and Hudsonian Godwit, Blue Earth County
This afternoon Dedrick Benz and I found six Willets and one Hudsonian Godwit at the Mapleton sewage ponds in southern Blue Earth County. Also of note here were Bobolinks along the barbed wire fence enclosing the ponds. Bob Dunlap, Nicollet 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
[mou-net] Louisiana Waterthrush - Henn County
At about noon, I id'd a Louisiana Waterthrush at the Old Cedar Ave bridge, west of the Parking Lot just west of the first pond, south of the trail (before the first boardwalk). I have never seen more Northern Waterthrushes in one place. They were chasing each other and flycatching from dead sticks in the pond. The Louisiana was keeping to itself on the other side of the trail, near the third "channel", close to the trail. Note in Sibley how the flank streaks "blur out" on Louisiana Waterthrush, whereas what rear flank streaks there are on Northern stay crisp, giving a Northern a white-flanked look, even at a distance. I have never put much stock in the length/width of the eyestripe since I think it can vary a lot. The Louisiana did have a big bright one that continued well back of the eye..on some of the Northerns the eye streak was thin overall and almost seemed to vanish past the eye. Oh well, just some musings...this is only the second Louisiana Waterthrush I have ever seen in this area (thouigh, when I lived in New York, they were overwhelmingly the majority of the Waterthrushs that came through Central Park in the spring. Warren Woessner Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Carver County-American Pipits
A flock of 11 American Pipits were feeding in a field near Assumption Lake in rural Carver County this morning. Songbirds were fairly sparse. I did find 11 warbler species including a Black-throated Green, but they were scattered(all at Carver Park and a few species at other locations throughout the county). Yellow Warblers were in several areas, though. Otherwise, birds seen were similar to earlier in the week adding my first vireo of the year, a Yellow-throated. _ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Far Western MN - shorebirds / misc.
Shorebirds are coming through in good total numbers and number of species in Western MN. A very short "windshield" stop at Salt Lake yesterday produced a nice group including: Dowitcher, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Least, Semi- palmated, Willson's Phalarope, and Ruddy Turnstone. The water levels are pretty high so it's really "duck heaven" but the mud flats on the west (South Dakota) side are the most productive. Many of the potholes in Lincoln, Lyon, Yellow Medicine, and Lac Qui Parle have at least a few shorebirds. During a survey at Mound Spring SNA I found a "pair" of Loggerhead Shrikes. Hopefully they will set up housekeeping? Doug Buri Milbank, SD Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
