I stopped at the Darwin S. Myers Wildlife Management Area, Embarrass, MN, St. Louis County just to check the access on Sunday and then returned with a group on Monday. On Monday we spent from 8:00 a.m. to noon in the area from the main entrance to the bridge and then east along the north side of the Embarrass River. With mixed levels of experience, a number of birds were first time sightings for participants. A relatively small area was covered as birds were heard and seen with binoculars and in some cases a spotting scope. Boreal chorus frogs, wood frogs, spring peepers, American toads and western painted turtles were also observed along with almost no biting insects.
*Sunday, May 25* Broad-winged Hawk *Monday, May 26* Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Hooded Merganser Northern Harrier Sora (many) Lesser Yellowlegs (6) Wilson’s Snipe (many) Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow (many - nest building under bridge) Winter Wren Sedge Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush (one) American Robin Gray Catbird Orange-crowned Warbler (one) Yellow Warbler (many) Palm Warbler (one) Blackpoll Warbler (one) American Redstart (one) Common Yellowthroat (many) Wilson’s Warbler (many) Lark Sparrow (one) Savannah Sparrow (one) Song Sparrow (many) Swamp Sparrow (many) White-throated Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird (many) American Goldfinch -- *Bill tefftefnb...@gmail.com <efnb...@gmail.com>218-235-8078* ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
