Adding to Matt Dufort's and Mike Hendrickson's dialogue on warbler migration:
I just returned from a few days in Ely where I had some time to bird (South Farm/Kawishiwi and Bass Lake/Dry Lake Trails). The warblers were thick throughout the woods, distributed evenly and singing constantly and in the same tree clusters day-to-day as if on territory. Very abundant warbler species: chestnut-sided, blackburnian, black-and-white, ovenbird, magnolia, nashville, black-throated green, and northern parula. Also many veeries, wood thrushes, and least flycatchers (including one at a completed nest). Fewer numbers (in specialized habitat) of northern waterthrush, common yellowthroat, and pine warbler. These observations are just one more bit of data. But it looks like at least some of the warblers might have done a fly-over, judging by how many were already up north! Diana Doyle S. Minneapolis ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
