May 10, 2010 Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter Carver Park Reserve Field Trip Summary
Led a trip to Carver park today and also made a few stops at other locations in Carver county. We encountered a good variety of species of birds. But, the only family of birds encountered in numbers were Swallows. Here are a few of the species of birds we encountered. Carver Park Reserve - 6:00 - 12:15 pm Chevalle Wetlands - 1:15 - 2:00 PM Purgatory Creek Wetlands - 2:15 - 3:15 pm Rapid's Lake Unit, MVNWR - 3:45 - 5:30 pm Shorebirds - Solitary, Least and Pectoral Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs - Carver county road 50, about a mile East of Maria Lake Road. Wilson's Snipe - displaying bird over the Tamarack Bog at Carver park. Barred Owl Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird American Pipit Warblers - Blue-winged, Golden-winged, Orange-crowned, Northern Parula, Yellow, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Palm, American Redstart, Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroat. Sparrows - 13 species, including Lark, Lincoln's, Harris's, White-crowned and Le Conte's. The Le Conte's Sparrow was observed in a brush pile at Carver park. Near the area where the Henslow's Sparrow has been recently reported. Craig Mandel Minnetonka, Hennepin County [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
