An AM exercise walk at the archery unit brought a second FOY warbler: one female Black-and-White, combing the tree limbs for breakfast. Present in the woods also, were numerous Yellow-rumped Warblers, along with singing Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and pairs of Eastern Phoebes, Downy Woodpeckers, and Blue Jays. One other woodpecker must have been a young female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; she sported no red in the crown that I could see.
In the fields were pairs of E. Bluebirds, many Song Sparrows, Field Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, and a Red-tailed Hawk. Regretfully, some Brown-headed cowbirds were winging in both field and woods, perhaps already on the lookout for active nests ( I'd enjoy their sound more, if their reproductive imperative didn't doom so many birds of other species). I may have heard the Cooper's Hawk as well; the crows were fussing over something in the vicinity, at any rate. Seen but not heard, was a graceful flock of Pelicans over the river. Other birds were pretty much the expected: Robins, Chickadees, WB Nuthatches, Cardinals, etc. But the leaves are filling out, and it will soon be more challenging to see those new arrivals. Hopefully they'll do a bit of singing to give themselves away, the way a Tufted Titmouse did last Saturday on Snake Creek Ski Trail (Wabasha/Kellogg area). Brushing up on birdsongs, Linda Whyte ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
