This morning 9 participants met for the 40th annual MRVAC Hok-si-la Warbler weekend. We found approx. 57 speciesof birds, including the Summer tanager mentioned elsewhere. Good weather, good company, and good birds made for a thoroughly enjoable day, Other species of interested included:
Six sp of warblers: Yellow Rumped, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, N. Parulua, C. Yellowthroat, N. Waterthrush Broad-winged Hawk, Caspian Tern Forsters Tern Cliff Swallow Soitary & Spotted Sandpipers Swainsons Thrush In addition I found several more species at stops in Dakota Co. on the way back, including: Dunlin (3-4) and 50+ Yellowlegs along 190th off of Biscayne. 2 more lesser Yellowlegs were the only shorebirds found at Jirik Sod Farms. Lastly, at a camp fire that my next door neighbor held to celebrate the beautiful day, a Barred Owl landed in a tree about ten feet from the fire circle, before taking to the air out over our lake. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected]
