Today, May 21, there were 5 Whimbrels in Knife River in Lake Co and a Black-throated Blue Warbler in Duluth. The Whimbrels were seen at noon on the rocks on the W side of Knife Island, and the Black-throated Blue was singing this afternoon ~100 yards east of the entrance to Chester Bowl along E Skyline Pkwy.
The warbler migration is apparently still going strong here, since I saw 17 species today during about 3 hours of casual midday birding, mostly along the N Shore between Duluth and Two Harbors. Besides the Black-throated Blue, the highlights were 3 late Orange-crowneds, several Cape Mays, a Blackpoll, and a Mourning. Since this was without any special effort to locate warblers, I would assume that a warbler list of 20 species would have been likely today if I had gone out earlier and included Park Point. (There are 26 warblers which regularly occur in Duluth. Of these, I missed Golden-winged, Tennessee, Blackburnian, Pine, Palm, Bay- breasted, N Waterthrush, Connecticut, and Canada: perhaps some other Duluth-area birders were out today and saw some of these?) Kim Eckert
