I found a Prothonotary Warbler hopping between reeds and some low branches below a stand of trees on the northwest side of Rapids Lake(a small bay on the far end of the lake). He was singing as well. The only way to access the area is to follow a well used deer/hunting trail down the bluff to the edge of the lake and then follow a less used trail north behind some trees along the lake until it opens a little towards the bay. Unfortunately it is difficult to give directions from the parking area along Cty Rd. 45. The best directions would be to head northeast from the parking area across the prairie until you reach the oak savannah. Then follow walk along the edge of the oak savannah until you find a worn path in the tall grasses. Follow that northeast until you reach an opening in the oak savannah. You should then meet with the path that heads down the bluff fairly soon. There was also a Scarlet Tanager in the general area of the Rapids Lake shore. I found 2 interacting Scarlet Tanagers at the Carver end of the Chaska Lake trail as well. Warbler numbers have decreased, mainly because there were no Yellow-rumped Warblers. A few more Tennessee Warblers have arrived and took their place in the Oaks at the Rapids Lake Unit. New vireos for the day were Yellow-throated at Rapids Lake and Red-eyed at Chaska Lake. There were still some late White-throated Sparrows at Rapids Lake and a late White-crowned Sparrow at Chaska Lake. Other warblers Tennessee(RL and CL) Amer. Redstart(RL and CL) Com. Yellowthroat(RL and CL) Ovenbird(RL and CL) Yellow(RL and CL) Black and White(RL and CL) Magnolia(RL and CL) Chestnut-sided(RL and CL) Nashville(RL) Black-throated Green(RL) Blue-winged(RL) Bay-breasted(CL) _________________________________________________________________ Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i?m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080520/04339e71/attachment.html
