(Please excuse the late post; obligations necessitate choosing between birding and posting, and we know what wins.)
A daylong trip Saturday to the E. Cannon River Wilderness and Nerstrand Woods State Park yielded great looks at the following, among others: redstart, magnolia, yellow, c. yellow-throat, golden-wing, blue-wing, cerulean, Cape May (seen by two of the party), chestnut-sided, palm, and hooded warbler; Tennessee and Nashvilles (heard only); ovenbirds; house wrens; blue-gray gnatcatchers; scarlet tanager; yellow-bellied sapsucker; Swainson's and gray-cheeked thrushes; bluebirds; veery; indigo bunting; E. towhee; rose-breasted grosbeak; great-crested flycatcher; catbird; cuckoo (heard only, from across the river); warbling, yellow-throated, and blue-headed vireos (heard); Cooper's and red-tail hawks. The prairie burn area was heavily populated with thrushes.The hooded warbler was beyond the entry-ravine, very near the second boardwalk. It flew low, across the path just in front of us, landing on a low branch just a couple of feet away from the trail. It chipped, never sang, but gave excellent, though brief, looks. The other highlight was the sapsucker (male) entering a cavity. He went all the way in, then poked out his head to stare back at us---most charming turn-about. En route there were a meadowlark, shrike, and E. phoebe. At Nerstrand we did spot the red-headed woodpecker in the main campground, fleetingly, as he took off into the woods. Altogether, it was a great day. Linda Whyte Reply Reply to all Forward New window Print all Add to calendar Hooded warbler, Cannon... Sun May 16, 2010 - add Sponsored Links Quality Sparrow Traps Rid Unwanted Sparrows. Professional & Safe Control Products. Buy Now! www.Nixalite.com/SparrowTrap VW Camping in Paradise Hawaii beachfront camping in a VW Westfalia Camper Van.1.888.550.3918 www.happycampershawaii.com Birds: Parrotlets,Conures Sweet Pet Birds-Parrotlets, Conures Lovebirds, and Bourke Parakeets. www.friendlybirdaviary.com Free WaImart Birds Want Free Birds? Get Your Free Birds Worth $1000 At WaImart yourfreesavings2009.com Missouri Camping Over 1500 Camp & RV Sites to choose from at Lake of the Ozarks. www.funlakecamping.com The Birds T-Shirt We Admire This Hitchcock Classic So We Had To Make A Shirt About it www.WeAdmire.net/TheBirds About these links « Back to Sent Mail Archive Report spam Delete Move to Inbox Labels More actions ‹ Newer 2 of 1730 Older › Import contacts from Yahoo, Outlook, and others into your Moosewoods.us Mail contact list. Learn more You are currently using 688 MB (9%) of your 7323 MB. Last account activity: 10 hours ago at this IP (208.42.91.229). Details Moosewoods.us Mail view: standard | turn off chat | basic HTML Learn more ©2009 Google - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy - Program Policies - Google Home Powered by Google ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html