This morning on Duluth Audubon's weekly May Warbler Walk at the Western Waterfront Trail, we listed 56 species. Our 14 warblers included several Wilson's Warblers, an extremely cooperative Canada Warbler, and lots of redstarts and Yellow Warblers. One Northern Waterthrush sang, but didn't come into view. We had several long and satisfying looks at an Orange-crowned Warbler, too.
One Green Heron called and flew over. One of our participants located a Virginia Rail in the large cattail stand near the entry late yesterday afternoon, but we didn't see or hear it this morning. Our lists from our weekly walks at Park Point and the Western Waterfront Trail can be found on the Duluth Audubon website or at: <http://www.lauraerickson.com/Birds/Bird%20Walks/Spring2004Species.html> Laura Erickson Duluth, MN Producer, "For the Birds" radio program <http://www.lauraerickson.com/> There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. --Justice William O. Douglas
