Hi everyone, Maplewood Park on the southeast end of Clear Lake, Waseca continues to be a gem for warblers as I tallied 18 species there this morning. Most prominent was a male Hooded Warbler. I located it at first about 100 - 150 yds. down the middle trail (of three main trails) from the parking lot. It was foraging low, less than knee high. I later re-located it briefly, feeding low once again, moving with a flock of Yellows, Nashville's, and Palms. I spent the next several hours walking around and sorting thru warblers without success of finding the bird again. However, there were so many birds moving around the whole time I was there, I have no doubt it remained within the park and I just missed it. (By the way, this is the first that I've been home all day, thus the lateness of this post. I apologize!)
Other warblers: Pine Golden-winged Magnolia Blackburnian Black-throated Green Wilson's Orange-crowned Yellow Nashville Redstart No. Waterthrush Ovenbird Yellow-rumped Palm Blackpoll Black & White Tennessee (Linda Born spotted a Bay-breasted Warbler as well, which I didn't find.) Other neat birds seen here were: Scarlet Tanager Red-headed Woodpecker Barred Owl Red-breasted Nuthatch Osprey Blue-headed Vireo and on the way home, I saw an Orchard Oriole (Thanks Linda :-)) and several Black Terns at Watkins Lake. Then I added two additional warblers for the day on a short walk at River Bend Nature Center with my family: Cape May Common Yellowthroat Plus, a Sora struggling into the wind, flying across the lower pond, only to land on a flimsy reed and plopping into the water, then swimming to shore! Jim Otto told me he saw the same thing happen yesterday! Jim, it was very cool! Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault, MN screechowl at charter.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080511/23998920/attachment-0001.html
