I birded Gray Cloud (entrance at the west end of 110th St. south of Cottage Grove) with 4 other birders this morning (Brandon Breen, Chih-Ming Hung, Gopi Sundar & Swati Kittur). Most of the sparrows are back, though we couldn't find Henslow's in the area of tallest grass that I saw them last year. The Lark Sparrows were down the hill from the parking lot along the tracks (i.e. where they usually are), and one was gathering nesting material. Highlights follow:
8 Sparrows: Chipping Song Field White-throated Vesper Clay-colored Grasshopper Lark Eastern Meadowlarks Baltimore & Orchard Oriole Rose-breasted Grosbeak Only 4 warblers (Yellow-rumped, Palm, Nashville, Blue-winged) Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow-throated Vireo Many Brown Thrashers & Towhees Scott Loss St. Paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
