Chet Meyers writes: The past two days have seen hundreds (probably thousands) of warblers pass through the Minneapolis City lakes area. The cold NW wind yesterday was a good catalyst in what has already been a great fall warbler migration. Yesterday a steady stream came through our backyard near the north end of Lake of the Isles, from 7:30 a.m. until at least 4:00 p.m. It made doing yard work quite difficult. Today, in the rain, Steve Carlson and I found nineteen different species in the city lakes area (Harriet, Isles, Calhoun, Cedar. Highlights included a brilliant, semi-late, Canada, also blackpoll, orange-crowned, bay-breasted, n. parula, and black-throated green. I look forward to drizzly days like this during migration as they are just super days for seeing birds up close. Today we saw our first brown creeper of the fall and two days ago, at the Bass Ponds, I saw my first orange-crowned warbler of the fall. Kinglets also are back. Chet Meyers, Hennepin County
