[mou-net] [mou-rba] Updates: White-eyed Vireo and Loggerhead Shrike
Hey birders, Tom Dahlen and I refound the White-eyed Vireo at Flandrau State Park this morning in the same general area it has been reported from. We also swung by the previously reported location for Loggerhead Shrikes in northern Blue Earth County and found one of the birds (perhaps the other was incubating in the rain). Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
Re: [mou-net] Park Point Shore Birds (Duluth)
My thanks to Tanya Beyer and her post from yesterday about all the shorebirds near Sky Harbor Airport. I was down at Park Point shortly after 6 am, and I named my birding excursion Invasion of the Arctic Shore Birds. Although I did not see or hear a Piping Plover, from the vantage point of the taped ribbon, I had a huge number of shorebirds work their way towards me as they ate breakfast. I saw (thanks to all the folks on Facebook who helped me with some ID's): Dunlins, a Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings, and Semipalmated Sandpipers! I drove back down around 11:00 am, and I could still see lots of shorebirds from the same vantage point, but much farther down the shore (about 200 yards). In the past I've often seen some of these birds at the mouth of the Lester River, but my three checks today came up empty on that score. Photos on my web site at http://www.365DaysOfBirds.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] HOODED WARBLER, Carpenter Naure Center, Washington
At around 11:30 today I found a singing male Hooded Warbler at Carpenter Nature Center, just south of the platform on the Savanna Trail. He was in the buckthorn thickets and lower tiers of the canopy singing consistently. I obtained some short recordings and got a good look at him. Nearly home in St. Paul, on St. Clair Ave where it intersects 35E, I then had both a flyover Osprey and better yet, a flyover Red-headed Woodpecker. Not a bad Ramsey Co bird, and darn near decent for St. Paul. Jesse Ellis St. Paul 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] May 2015 in Carver County
After the Mays of 2013 and 2014, May 2015 has been rather unexceptional. Warbler variety on a day to day basis was pretty good, but migrant counts each of those days was generally unimpressive. There were no significant fallouts, and migrants were typically quite scattered and not in large groups. Migrant vireo numbers were poor and migrant thrush numbers were not high closer to what I expected before the spring of 2013. Continuing with the theme, migrant flycatcher numbers were unimpressive as well. After the very poor fall 2014 season for Lincoln's, White-crowned, and Harris's Sparrow this spring wasn't much better. I even turned up significantly fewer White-throated Sparrow compared to the past few springs. The most unusual birds this month were a Loggerhead Shrike on May 22 at Rapids Lake MVNWR and a White-faced Ibis on May 26 at the Chevalle neighborhood wetlands. Warbler species seen each day followed by cumulative migrant warbler counts May 6 13 May 7 20 May 8 20 May 9 18 May 10 16 May 12 16 May 13 17 May 15 17 May 16 20 May 17 16 May 20 16 May 21 15 May 22 12 May 23 14 May 24 13 May 29 5 Ovenbird 21 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Waterthrush 22 Golden-winged Warbler 23 Black-and-white Warbler 22 Tennessee Warbler 183 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Nashville Warbler 75 Connecticut Warbler 1 Mourning Warbler 4 Cape May Warbler 2 Northern Parula 8 Magnolia Warbler 39 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 11 Chestnut-sided Warbler 28 Blackpoll Warbler 24 Palm Warbler 39 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 122(includes April counts, following up a relatively poor fall last year with a relatively poor spring for this species) Black-throated Green Warbler 12 Canada Warbler 8 Wilson's Warbler 29 Numbers of summer resident warbler(Blue-winged, Prothonotary, Yellowthroat, Redstart, Cerulean, and Yellow) seemed relatively normal John Cyrus 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] Hooded and Prothonotary Warbler, Riverside Park
This afternoon I heard and saw a Hooded Warbler and Prothonotary Warbler at
Riverside Park in St. Paul Park (Washington County).
Hooded Warbler:
Park at the 13th avenue entrance. From the wooded trail head (not the field
trail head) the trail starts with a Y, go to the right of the Y which
starts behind the metal swing gate. Follow that down a steady sloped trail
roughly 75 to 100 yards until you reach a metal bench, this is the area
where I heard and saw it.
Link to info about Riverside Park:
http://www.stpaulpark.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASICSEC={91594175-C5C7-4B34-893C-B860160718E7}DE={6F12D5EC-FD7B-49D7-8AC7-A1CD5F5A24AD}
Prothonotary Warbler:
From the bench mentioned in the directions above, head south (left) down the
trail for roughly 100 yards, this is approximately where I heard it first.
There are several openings that give way to good access to the river bottom
and views across the channel to the next island which is where the
Prothonotary was calling from. Eventually it did fly to my side of the
channel and I was able to get excellent views!
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