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Today was the first day I've run at noon in a week or so, and my route takes me
across the Stonearch Bridge from Minneapolis, up Nicollet Island and Boom
Island Park, and back across the river and downstream over Bassett's Creek on
the other side.
The catbirds have returned to Nicollet Island and Boom Island Park, and the
great egret was again fishing just below the hydro plant in the company of
ring-billed gulls and Canada geese. Phoebes populated the channel between Boom
Island Park and Nicollet Island, and chipping sparrows were everywhere. The
golden-crowned and ruby-crowned kinglets appear to have left; they were around
last week. The cormorants are back in residence in the cottonwood trees just
upstream of the Stonearch Bridge. I couldn't relocate the black-crowned night
heron that I saw last week at the confluence of Basset's Creek and the river,
nor did I see the house wren or the Cooper's hawks from last week.
Good birding to all...
Rob Daves,
Minneapolis
Another birder reported hearing Tennessee warblers just downstream of
Basset's Creek, but I'm enough of a novice that I couldn't relocate them.
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<div>Today was the first day I've run at noon in a week or so, and my route
takes me across the Stonearch Bridge from Minneapolis, up Nicollet Island and
Boom Island Park, and back across the river and downstream over Bassett's Creek
on the other side.</div> <div> </div> <div>The catbirds have returned to
Nicollet Island and Boom Island Park, and the great egret was again fishing
just below the hydro plant in the company of ring-billed gulls and Canada
geese. Phoebes populated the channel between Boom Island Park and
Nicollet Island, and chipping sparrows were everywhere. The
golden-crowned and ruby-crowned kinglets appear to have left; they were around
last week. The cormorants are back in residence in the cottonwood trees
just upstream of the Stonearch Bridge. I couldn't relocate the
black-crowned night heron that I saw last week at the confluence of Basset's
Creek and the river, nor did I see the house wren or the Cooper's hawks from
last
week. </div> <div> </div> <div>Good birding to all...</div>
<div> </div> <div>Rob Daves,</div> <div>Minneapolis</div>
<div> </div> <div>Another birder reported hearing Tennessee warblers just
downstream of Basset's Creek, but I'm enough of a novice that I couldn't
relocate them. </div><p>
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