I enjoyed good birding Friday at the arboretum, Saturday at Carver Park Reserve, and today at Rapids Lake MVNWR with 18 warbler species over the three days. Today had the highest warbler species total with 14. Canada Warbler were especially numerous today with 10 beating my previous high count of 9 on August 20 last year at the arboretum.
August 17 U of M Landscape Arboretum select count Broad-winged Hawk 2 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee 8 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Ovenbird 1 Golden-winged Warbler 1 immature female Black-and-white Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 4 American Redstart 4 Cape May Warbler 1 male Blackburnian Warbler 1 immature Yellow Warbler 1 female Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Canada Warbler 1 female Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 7 August 18 Carver Park Reserve select count Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 9 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 7 House Wren 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 13 Ovenbird 1 Golden-winged Warbler 1 female Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 5 Common Yellowthroat 15 American Redstart 17 Magnolia Warbler 2 Blackburnian Warbler 1 adult Yellow Warbler 1 immature Canada Warbler 1 female Chipping, Clay-colored, Field, Song, and Swamp Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 4 August 19 Rapids Lake MNVWR select count Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 (this cuckoo was just perched on a dead snag soaking in the sun) Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 6 Alder/Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 4 House Wren 5 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Northern Waterthrush 2 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 4 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 5 American Redstart 14 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 male (this bird had more breeding plumage remaining than any Bay-breasted Warbler I have seen during the month of August) Blackburnian Warbler 2 (adult and immature) Yellow Warbler 2 (male and female) Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Canada Warbler 10 (4 male and 6 female) Wilson's Warbler 3 male Baltimore Oriole 7 (5 male and 2 immature) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html