In past years I have never made it to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in August, waiting until September and October to visit. This year I am making it a point to make several August trips to the arboretum beginning today. Yesterday's front brought with it the first significant wave of migrants into the area.
Select arboretum count Caspian Tern 2 flyover Ruby-throated Hummingbird 8+ Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Peewee 6 Least Flycatcher 7 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 House Wren 7 Sedge Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Veery 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Golden-winged Warbler 4 (2 male, 1 female, 1 immature female) Black and White Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 4 Nashville Warbler 1 female Mourning Warbler 1 female Common Yellowthroat ~10 American Redstart 6 female Blackburnian Warbler 4 (1 male, 1 female, 2 immature) Chestnut-sided Warbler 6 Pine Warbler 1 male Black-throated Green Warbler 1 immature female Canada Warbler 9 (4 male, 5 female) Wilson's Warbler 5 (3 male, 2 female) In addition there were Blue-winged, Yellow, and Wilson's Warbler at a quick stop from the north hunters lot at Rapids Lake MVNWR. Earlier in the week on the 16th there was a Mourning Warbler at Carver Park, and on the 18th there were Olive-sided Flycatcher, Tennessee, Nashville, and Canada Warbler also at Carver Park. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html