I birded Afton State Park last Friday and Monday. Highlights: Henslow's Sparrow - 1 (See location info below) Grasshopper Sparrow - several Savannah Sparrow - several Field Sparrow - many Vesper Sparrow - 1 Eastern Towhee - many Ruffed Grouse -1 (heard drumming) Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 (Friday, near entrance) Blue-winged Warbler - good numbers Ovenbird - many Scarlet Tanager - good numbers Canada Warbler - 1 (Friday) Orchard Oriole - 1 (Friday) Eastern Meadowlark - good numbers Sedge Wren - several
No Bobolinks (Why?) To the Henslow's (refer to a map of the park trails): From the northern park boundary, west of center, a trail goes due south for 0.3 miles, where it branches west and east. The east branch curves to the south and comes to a four-way intersection where there is a shelter (shown by a symbol on the map). From this intersection, go west a short distance to the first large wooden post. The Henslow's was singing about 30 meters south (left) of the trail in this area. This is a very large, open grassland, so there may be more Henslow's present, but I only heard the one. Julian Sellers St. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070529/4d7b5831/attachment-0001.html
