Hi all- My dad and I birded Wednesday morning.
At 7 am, the Prothonotary at the visitor center in Fort Snelling State park was singing full blast and offered good looks. Then we went to Murphy-Hanrehan to look for more local birds. We managed to find Cerulean Warbler at three different sites, including hearing a singing bird at the road over the Credit River. The Hooded Warblers were on territory near trail intersection 2. We missed Acadian Flycatchers here. There are loons on the lake. Between the Prothonotary and the Hoodeds we managed 8 breeding warblers for the day, not bad for southern MN. At the Pet Trails the highlights were a singing Blue-winged Warbler, a nesting (?) Green Heron and both singing Willow and Alder Flycatchers. I presume the Alder was a migrant. Also had a BIG female Cooper's Hawk flying over. Jesse -- Jesse Ellis, Ph. D. candidate Neurobiology and Behavior [email protected] 111 Mudd Hall Cornell University Ithaca, 14853 "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt "The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for robin, and now there are robins all over their villages." --John McCain, on global warming
