As I was leaving the Bass Ponds this evening about 7:45pm and conversing with another birder about what I had seen, he suggested that I should report the sighting of the Louisiana Water thrush as it would be considered rare for this area. I actually saw both the Northern and Louisiana Water thrushes this evening and both are lifers for me. The Northern Water thrush was spotted along the stream flowing from the pond on the left of the trail that comes down from 86th street right at the point where the trail turns to the southwest toward the Cedar Ave Bridge. The Louisiana Water thrush was spotted along the stream on the other side of the same pond just where the footbridge crosses over the stream. The two birds were distinctly different, with the Louisiana having a dark stripe through the eye with white stripe above the eye and a dark cap and a white throat. Other birds seen this evening at the Bass Ponds in the order seen Yellow-Rumped Warblers Tree Swallow Cardinal Turkey Vulture Robin Yellow Warbler Canada Goose Great Blue Heron Coot Mallard Red-winged Black Bird Downy Woodpecker Solitary Sandpiper Palm Warbler Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Kingfisher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Black and White Warbler Goldfinch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080504/3429f1bc/attachment.html
