For the second spring in a row I am leading a birding course through the U of M's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Our first outing was this morning to Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley. I was surprised by the diversity of early migrants present, and there seemed to be a notable movement of migrating birds to the northwest as we saw many flyover Ring-billed Gulls and several Killdeer. On a side-note, I saw my first Hermit Thrush Monday evening on the U of M - St Paul campus. Highlights from Springbrook follow:
Great Egret Great Blue Heron Blue-winged Teal Common Merganser (flyover) Belted Kingfisher Killdeer (flyover) Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpeckers at nest hole Winter Wren Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (3) Eastern Phoebe Yellow-rumped Warbler Fox Sparrow (2) Scott Loss St. Paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
