Acadian Flycatcher Cerulean Warbler Yellow-billed Cuckoo Miesville Ravine; morning Sunday 6/17 I lead a MRVAC field trip to Miesville Ravine in south eastern Dakota County and found 49 bird species, including: Acadian Flycatcher - two birds heard, one seen singing. Strong eye-ring, brown back and wings, belly and under-tail coverts yellow. Cerulean Warbler - two males, only one singing. Both were up the trail. First was at large stones crossing stream bed. Second was just before the wet meadow. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - three birds (possibly one was a Black-billed) heard. One flew across the county line at the south parking lot. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - observed in courtship display flight. Neat! Wood Thrush - 3 singing. A possible fourth observed. Ovenbird - several singing Yellow-throated Vireo - great looks Eastern Towhee - several
Butterflies: Black morph eastern tiger swallowtail, great spangled Fritillary, Northern Crescent, Question Mark, Eastern Comma, Mourning Cloak, Red Admiral (lots), Red-spotted Purple, Hackberry Emporer, Common Ringlet, Little Wood-Satyr (only four spots on underwings), European Skipper Plants of note: Dame's rocket, white wintergreen (shineleaf) (Pyrola eliptica), tall meadow-rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum), smooth catchfly (silene cserei),. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN sweston2 at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070617/f9280580/attachment-0001.html
