After missing out on Minnesota birds the last 10 days but enjoying some great birding on and near the Cumberland Plateau of east Tennessee, I was back early this afternoon to bird mainly Rapids Lake. I did check Rice Lake first thing this afternoon and found 1 Wilson's Phalarope, 1 Willet, and 1 Pectoral Sandpiper with Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.
Rapids Lake MVNWR birds and counts Wood Duck Mallard Great Blue Heron 4 Bald Eagle 1 Killdeer 1 Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 2 Blue Jay American Crown Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird 3 Brown Thrasher 1 Ovenbird 1 Blue-winged Warbler 6 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 7 American Redstart 4 Yellow Warbler 22 (mainly male) Palm Warbler 4 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Lark Sparrow 2 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow ~75 Harris's Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak 20 (all malle) Indigo Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole 1 male Baltimore Oriole 14(all male) American Goldfinch ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html