[mou-net] Major warbler wave in Melrude (St Louis)

[Byokel]

A huge wave of warblers was present all day long in our spruces...hundreds  
of individuals of 22 different species.  Much of our yard is an  overgrown 
x-mas tree plantation, and these spruces always act as  a migrant trap in 
the spring.  We have had fairly good numbers of  warblers all week long, but 
today was exceptional; the trees were literally  alive with birds!
 
Tennessee Warblers were especially numerous, and their singing was almost  
deafening in the morning.  They came to the edge of the lake to drink and  
bathe by the dozens in the late morning. Redstarts,  Bay Breasted,  
Blackpoll, Blackburnian, and Magnolia were also exceptionally numerous.  In  
addition 
to the warblers, we had good numbers of least flycatchers and orioles  (all 
Baltimore, but we were on high alert after Sandy Roggenkamp's Orchard  
Oriole sighting just a few miles south yesterday ;-)
 
Ben Yokel
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[mou-net] Red Headed WP question

[byokel]

We will be driving to Mankato this weekend (from our home in Cotton) and I 
would love to show my younger son a Red Headed Woodpecker, a bird he has never 
seen.  I would welcome any advice about reliable areas to search between here 
and there, or any other great birding areas near St Peter/Mankato worth 
visiting.

Thanks!

Ben Yokel
Cotton (St Louis Co)
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[mou-net] Hawk Owl (St Louis)

[byokel]

Present this morning on Melrude Rd just S of Berg Lake Rd.  This area is worth 
checking if you fail to see owls in the bog proper, as up to three individual 
birds have been present in the last few days.

Ben Yokel
Cotton
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[mou-net] Owls in Melrude (St Louis)

[byokel]

David Alexander and Joshua and Peter Yokel found the followinf owls in Melrude 
today

Northern Hawk Owl: west melrude rd (59), three miles east of Hwy 53

Great Gray Owl: Stone Road, one mile east of Lee Rd (which in turn is located 
just south of the melrude town hall and pub)

Ilana Yokel found another Great Gray owl on west Melrude rd about one mile east 
of 53

Our redpoll/siskin/pine grosbeak flock has been growing exponentially every 
day.  Birders visiting Melrude are welcome to check out our feeders (visible 
from our driveway on Young Lake Rd)

Ben Yokel
Cotton, MN 
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[mou-net] Great Gray in Melrude

[byokel]

Still present today on W Melrude rd/59, 1.5 mi E of Hwy 53.  Also second hand 
report of great gray on E Melrude road, about 2 miles N of 52 (comstock lake 
rd)... Both locations have had owls present for several weeks.

Ben Yokel
Cotton, MN
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