Took a look around the Visitors Center/Schulze Lake area of Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan this morning, and found it to be fairly birdy. Typically, I prefer the Holland Lake area, but thought I'd check out someplace different for a change. Lighting was terrible today, and several interesting things managed to slip away without being identified. I had 12 warbler species. The list of interesting (to me) birds follows:
Common Yellowthroat- 3 Nashville Warbler- 12 Tennessee Warbler- 4 Northern Waterthrush- 2 Magnolia Warbler- 2 American Redstart- 8 Black-and-White Warbler- 4 Ovenbird- 1 Blackburnian Warbler- 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler- 3 Canada Warbler- 1 Bay-breasted Warbler- 1 Great Crested Flycatcher- 1 Philadelphia Vireo- 1 Warbling Vireo- 3 Red-eyed Vireo- 2 Swainson's Thrush- 2 Plus another 24 species, all expected. I was very pleased to see the waterthrushes, which I somehow missed in spring. They represent the 30th warbler species (plus an additional hybrid) I've seen in Dakota this year, one of my highest totals for this group. Too bad I also missed the Yellow-throated Warbler earlier in the summer! It's been a great warbler year here. Drew Smith Eagan, Dakota County -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080904/d62dfef7/attachment.html
