On Saturday three of us birded Beaver Creek State Park and Ferndale Ridge WMA in Houston County. Not a lot of warblers but there were 2 Louisiana waterthrush on the Big Spring trail at Beaver Creek. A possible Acadian Flycatcher on the valley trail. Only sang once and sounded like Acadian but to short to be sure. The image I got looks good as well but can't be sure. At Ferndale the Bobolinks are nesting in fields of clover and pop out then settle back in and there is little tall grass for them to sit up on. There is a lot of brush clearing and a nice hedgerow is now gone. Of note 2 yellow-billed cuckoo passed by and settled briefly in a tall tree edge.
On Friday I saw 4 vireo species (yellow-throated, blue-headed, red-eyed and warbling) as well as Gray-cheeked and Swainson's thrush and Veery at Forestville State Park. Mike Henry ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
