Despite the wind, down in the backwater-silver maple lagoons of Bend in the River County Park (SW of Rice,MN) a large amount of warblers feeding on insects from ground level to almost mid-story, especially in those areas with upturned rootmass of downfall and vertical growing limb sprouts. Stayed in one spot for two hours and saw the most Blackpolls ever than any other outing (guessing 50-80). Included in the numbers were many Chestnut-sided(FOY), Yellow, Magnolias(FOY), Yellow-rumps, Redstarts, 3-Cape Mays, 2-Nashville, few Tennessee, many Blackburnian, few Palm, few Ovenbird, 1-Canada(by Gosiak who joined the scene near the end). Also, FOY-Red-eyed vireo, YThroated Vireo and BHeaded, 3-Scarlet Tanagers(FOY)--one feeding on a rootmass 30 feet from me for over a half hour. Back home at sundown in St. Augusta--a lone and new yard-list bird, a Golden-Winged Warbler(FOY) with a few Tennesees in the Bur Oaks. mjb ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
