Today, 7 May, the Minn Birding Weekends group found a good number of migrants in Jackson Co, especially at Robertson Co Park on Loon Lake. Most significant among the 13 warbler species at the park was a singing Blue-winged Warbler. Also of note there was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Among the other species at Robertson:
Red-bellied Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Blue-headed Vireo Gray-cheeked & Wood thrushes Tennessee, Nashville, N Parula, Yellow, Black-throated Green, Am Redstart, Ovenbird, N Waterthrush, Wilson's warblers Eastern Towhee Lincoln's & Harris's sparrows Baltimore Oriole. Elsewhere in the county, among our day's total of 116 species, we saw: Bufflehead 11 shorebird species, incl Semipalmated Plover, White-rumped & Stilt sandpipers, Short-billed & Long-billed dowitchers, Wilson's Phalarope Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Western & Eastern kingbirds American Pipit Bobolink Great-tailed Grackle (1 male along Hwy 86, 2 mi N of Iowa line) Pine Siskin. Kim Eckert
