May 29th while hiking on the Astrid Lake Trail off the Echo Trail in northern St Louis County, there was a male Black-backed Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, and Connecticut Warbler. Park at the trail parking lot, but then walk the road to the hiking trail where it crosses the Echo Trail and heads south. The trail as it heads south goes through a Black Spruce bog and the trail has been elevated slightly on a primitive boardwalk to provide access.
Many warblers are finally back including: Mourning, Blackburnian, Northern Parula. Lots of Evening Grosbeaks are in the area around Crane Lake visiting feeders. Here is a link to a hiking trail map: http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/superior/recreation/hiking/documents/astridt railrog.pdf Dee Kuder Crane Lake -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080530/f0cf668e/attachment.html
