Sounds great! Our warbler migration here in SE SD finally hit the jackpot this weekend:
Worm-eating (seen and heard), Prothonotary (where they were nesting last summer), over 50 redstart, over 80 Tennessee, 5 Blue-winged singing and seen perched up, plus singing Magnolia, Canada, Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, and most unusual for us--Bay-breasted. Many other species too. We also had a flock of Hudsonian Godwit on a flooded field with 30-40 White-rumped Sandpipers, 15-20 Dunlin (resplendent in breeding plumage), Stilt and Baird's sandpipers. AND...a Yellow-crowned Night Heron at the conference site! There are fewer than 10 records for YCNH in SD. A very good showing for our SDOU state Spring Meeting. Roseate Terns nest near my property near Reid State Park in Maine--also on islands. If you have trouble finding them across the pond, I can get you to the Maine birds. Doug Chapman Sioux Falls, SD On May 25, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Thomas Maiello wrote: > Sad to hear that the warblers I have waited a year for have finally been > spotted in Duluth. Seems like a black and white spring for me - > > BUT the reason I am unable to rush up to Duluth to see God's Technicolor IMax > 3-D show is that I am on my way to NE England near the border of Scotland and > England on the North Sea. Through BirdingPal.com, a man I am hooking up with > just north of Newcastle has booked us on a boat to see an island where > Roseate Terns are nesting! I don't know much about the bird yet but from my > initial searches, the tern is endangered and this island is one of the few > sites where they nest at least near England. I am pretty stoked to have the > opportunity - plus he has guaranteed me puffins and gannets! Yeeehaaaaw! > > In the meanwhile, would someone please contact the producer and director of > the warbler spring migration show and have her hold a few of each species > back in Minneapolis, in a certain woods in Maple Grove so I can see them when > I return? > > Ultimately, any lack of observation will require me to schedule a week up in > the Boundary Waters where a lot of them nest - so it looks like I am living > in that win/win zone once again - or as usual. > > Can it get any better than this? > > Thomas Maiello > Angel Environmental Management, Inc. > Maple Grove, MN > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
