A couple of days birding in the NW corner of Minnesota with my wife and son were good for 147 species. A few of the highlights are listed below:
5/25 Connecticut Warbler - singing in a tamarack bog just north of Norris Camp in Lake of the Woods County Dunlin (2), Wilson's Phalarope (2), Marbled Godwit (15+), Ruddy Turnstone (1) - Greenbush sewage ponds in Roseau County Long-eared Owl - still on the nest reported by Larry Wilebski in Kittson County (also saw an Orchard Oriole at his amazing bird sanctuary and 5 Sharp-tailed Grouse on the county road (?) leading to it) 5/26 Whippoorwill - lots of them singing at Lake Bronson State Park in Kittson before 4 am Warblers! - major movement along Farmes Pool at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County (included Tennessee, Wlson's, Orange-crowned, Palm, Blackpoll [most I've ever seen!], Bay-breasted, Cape May [lots!] and also migrant Yellow-bellied and Olive-sided Flycatchers and Gray-cheeked Thrush) [By the way, don't go to Agassiz for waterfowl or shorebirds right now...but the woods birds were really good at Farmes, the HQ, and the walking trail on the ridge] Marbled Godwit and 6 Western Grebes - Thief River Falls sewage ponds in Pennington County Western Kingbird - 2 at the East Grand Forks sewage ponds in Polk County (quite a few Franklin's Gulls and Canvasbacks there which we didn't find elsewhere) Red-headed Woodpecker (3), Swainson's Thrush, several Tennessee Warblers, dozens of Least Flycatchers concentrated (may have been other Empids as well but I only heard Least), and a second-hand cuckoo report - Red River State Rec Area in Polk -- Shawn Conrad www.itascacnfbirding.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
