Yes thanks Mike for your update--I too saw the phainopepla over the noon
hour in the motel grounds, flycatching from the crab apple tree and dead
spruce, behaving just like the waxwings who I understand are its distant
cousins. Likely this was a young bird that decided to wander northward.
On Mon,
A surprise for sure, right on the lawn at the edge of the Virginia Co-op
Credit Union at 9th Avenue W & 4th Street, foraging, briefly eating bugs or
seeds off the wheel of a parked pickup. Some neighbors' yard fowl? I would
like to consider it an accidental or resident wild bird.
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ut-of-territory bird in
cold weather might need a little help in the way of bread scraps, seed,
fish, etc. in case that would help see it on its way to wherever it finds
more of its own kind. Maybe a long shot but I couldn't help wondering.
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on the same property.
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There are northern waterthrushes singing, one singer on each side of the
river. Heard as well, Nashville, black-and-white, yellow-rumped warblers,
one ovenbird. Also one probable black-throated green.
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. But if I'm seeing Eurasian tree sparrows in Duluth's alleys
other people must have seen them too.
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heard it. There seemed to be only three phrases and the bird was gone;
winds were out of the south. I wonder if there are any nesting records for
wood thrush in this part of St. Louis County.
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window alongside the fridge some ruffed grouse
feathers were clinging; the grouse was still alive but in heavy shock. I
suppose if this were the case here the cuckoos would be carried off as prey
and never seen...
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In St. Louis County - Cty. Highway 133 about 2 miles east of Meadowlands,
one great gray owl, pouncing into the ditch just as the car passed.
Just now, noon, along Cty. 991 one meadowlark, 2nd for the season in this
area. Almost certainly it was the eastern.
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bore a wide grey bar and there was a grayish collar along the back of the
neck a bit like the marking on a cliff swallow. When it flew the forked
tail was even more apparent.
Pussy willows were in bud along the deep water of the ditch down the road.
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trumpeter. An odd and unexpected sight in a region of hay meadows. I
haven't glimpsed the St. Louis River lately but will this week-end; it may
be running partially open.
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, but all the
other birds have gone elsewhere in this afternoon of the wettest possible
snow, by now evidently rainfall. Some things change but some stay the same.
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reported, had gone. Viewing light was strong and the air crisp so that
a good scope made a long view of a few hundred yards about as vivid as if
the bird were 30 feet away. Hopefully it came back to be seen by
mid-to-late afternoon.
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in late morning or noon.
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sparrow, white-crowned sparrow and junco all foraging in dust and grass
alongside the parked car early this morning. At this time of the year the
ground seems to cook with ground-feeding southbound migrant birds.
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e two species can overlap so much in terms of visual characteristics,
especially in low light.
Hoping some day to make it to Arizona to see and hear this bird on its own
territory. It's good to know some other MN observers have gotten to hear
this visiting bird.
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apparent but a pair of St. Louis River Alliance monitors, John and
Sharon, soon turned up, saying that in separate weeks they had sighted two
individual banded male piping plover. Temperature was about 45 F and the
wind chill something of a marvel.
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Thanks Ben Fritchman for the link to black-billed cuckoo calls. Heck, if we
could have a painted bunting in Eveleth... At any rate I apologize to
anyone needlessly excited by the posting.
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Indiana. Sibley's map shows this bird as an occasionally found species in
our area.
Also a nice variety of northland warblers from along the Whiteface River
including magnolia, parula, black-throated green, Canada, pine and northern
waterthrush.
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e and weed border just a stride below us, a perfect and
resplendent spring chestnut-sided warbler full of the richest soft woodland
color. This could be pointed out as more evidence that storms drive hungry
migrant birds to the ground, and wherever they fall, they will try to glean
food.
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iting the
snow white underwing and an idea of the white at the base of the tail,
coming up along the edges of the rump. Impending stormy weather may change
the conditions somewhat...
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successfully point me to my first-ever screech owl (have heard them but
never seen one) a small, life-like watercolor painting of that screech owl.
Some common birds are especially hard to find. No captive screech owls,
just a wild one in or near its roost.
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gap between visits. Many thanks to good friend Laura Coble for the
instructions for finding that very bird-friendly yard via Hwy. 316 and the
hidden Orlando Avenue south.
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the fruiting pin cherry and juneberry trees of August, a little bit
suggestive of gold parrots in a different kind of forest.
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with white-winged but these, all I could pick out in their momentary visit
at the tops of our spruce windbreak, were white-winged. They bounded off to
the southeast on a cue that I hope had little to do with my presence in a
red jacket.
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west. I first sighted the flock from across the highway at the
laundromat, without binoculars, the movement of the flock was so obvious,
like starlings.
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I have been scaring up snow buntings, a single bird yesterday and a little
troupe today, from Hwys. 133 and 52 (Arkola Road) in St. Louis County. One
tree sparrow emerged along the state trail just west of Cotton as I was
heading into the spruce bog there on foot.
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Hoping to be so lucky this week-end while in town for an event.
Thanks to everyone who has posted about it.
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l his back, while his wings drooped before he
moved on.
Other finds included three varieties of purple and white violet and a
yellow lady's slipper, not quite open.
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thrushes, blown in on the storms that must have also hit Duluth last night.
Sunday night there were three adult and one immature Bonaparte's gulls
along the lake's edge there.
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Flushed and flew upward in one of the roadside trees between the Little
Whiteface road and the railroad tracks at about 9 this morning.
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woodpecker to fly in from wherever it had been and join them in the trees
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graying, would have been my late dad's
explanation for the sight, but he liked fanciful reasoning for things like
bird coloration. Meanwhile I was eliminating any hoped-for evidence to take
home that a tree sparrow and a golden-crowned were traveling together.
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That comment about the three-legged plovers was supposed to say
one-legged--OOOPS! The reason for the observation is that on one or two
occasions I've seen plovers that hopped on one leg in a field during
migration.
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air, in thrall to the stream of my cry, \ a beam down the hemisphere.
'The Golden Plover, Southbound'
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They have been my neighbors in good numbers this summer in central St.
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. Another cardinal responded to the first one over nearer the beach.
And these are birds that will come check you, the human prowler, out when
you go peeking at them (unlike a Connecticut warbler...)
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(Wisconsin) side of the point.
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look up habits and habitat of the solitaire, Pough's
description of preferred habitat was an exact match for the landscaping
that had been done right there, behind the Science Museum.
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bird move in almost too close
for ideal viewing.
A car passed by and of course the whole flock lifted off in that jaunty,
mix-it-up manner of flight, the apparent number of individual birds again a
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pared with this one was quite birdless whenever I visited it till
March, when the first song sparrow appeared.
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Sibley I think, that ruffed grouse have that whirring take-off sound, but
now, since I've never spooked a spruce grouse while I was walking, if
spruce grouse make a silent getaway for the most part so that winged
explosion in our region would have to mean ruffed gr
, re-sort themselves in the air but basically move as a unit to a
new cove of tansy, foraging as busily as before.
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Halfway down the steep slope from the paved overlook above the St. Louis
River at the picnic area is a busily singing pair of Canada warblers. I was
surprised to make this ID by following the song along the hillside; the Canada
warbler is a species very familiar to me from the 1970s and 80s at t
Early this morning I spied a pair of red knots feeding along the beach mid-way
along Wisconsin Point, surrounded by gulls and terns. They proved tolerant of
my slow approach, allowing a long look. Later a couple of fellow birders
showed up and all 3 of us were able to re-discover this pair of bi
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