Had a couple of interesting birds at the Pipestone National Monument on Saturday, June 6th. A Blue Grosbeak was singing just upstream from the waterfall. Also a late Olive-sided Flycatcher was rather obvious feeding from the tree tops along the stream just west of the main woods.
Also interesting was a single LeContes Sparrow singing in southern Lincoln County, south of Lake Benton in the Hole-in-the-Mountain area on Nature Conservancy land. This is the second year in a row that we have found a Lecontes singing in this general area in early June. Historically this is considered south of their normal breeding range. Is this a very late migrant or attempted breeding? Who knows? Dennis and Barbara Martin [email protected]
