There were 6 Prothonotary Warblers at the Rapids Lake Unit of MVNWR at 2 locations. There were 2 close to the area I found one back in May on the northwest side of Rapids Lake. There were 4 feeding and interacting along the trail that follows north along the Minnesota River from the visitors center. The 4 were not that far from the east shore of Rapids Lake. I have not seen them in that area the last 3 times I walked that trail. Also, I spoke too soon about not seeing many vireos. I saw at least 7 Yellow-throated Vireos at 3 locations and heard 2 at a 4th location. I also saw 4 Red-eyed Vireo and 2 Warbling. Sparrows have quieted versus 2 weeks ago. Only Song and Field Sparrows were singing. Besides many Yellowthroat, quite a few Redstart, and 2 Yellow Warbler there were 2 migrating warblers, 1 Tennessee Warbler and 1 Nashville Warbler. Based on my observations from the last 2 summers, fall songbird migration is a bit slower this year. I wonder if that is due to the drawn out spring migration this year. The Chevalle neighborhood wetlands in Chaska turned up a few shorebirds this morning. There were 2 Spotted, 1 Solitary, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, Kildeer, and a few peeps that would not stop in one location flying back and forth. The Purgatory Creek wetlands were disappointing the 2 times I went this past week. Despite the greatly increased area of mudflats, I didn't see that many shorebirds. What I did see was usually seen only in groups of 1-5. Shorebirds seen this week were: Kildeer, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, and Wilson's Phalarope. John _________________________________________________________________ Be the filmmaker you always wanted to be?learn how to burn a DVD with Windows?. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588797/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080816/604b5969/attachment.html
