I led the final outing for my birding class (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - Univ. of Minnesota) today at Crosby Farm Park in St. Paul. We were treated to continuing excellent numbers and diversity of migrants. Amazingly, the group of 20 participants was able to get great looks at almost all of the warblers and most of the other migrants (including Bay-breasted walking on the ground 20 feet away!). All sightings (unless noted otherwise) were seen between the west parking lot and the boardwalk at the east end of the first pond (via the trail around the south side of the pond, which is quite muddy in spots). The class was simply overwhelmed (but happy) by the constant flood of birds.
After class, a few of my friends and I headed down to the east end to look for Prothonotary Warblers, but flood waters kept us from getting too close to the traditional location. Highlights: 21 Warblers: Yellow Magnolia Chestntut-sided Cape May (seen at east end of park after class) Blackburnian Yellow-rumped Palm Black-throated Green Bay-breasted Blackpoll Black-and-white American Redstart Golden-winged Tennessee Nashville Orange-crowned Northern Parula Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Wilson's Common Yellowthroat 5 Vireos: Warbling Philadelphia Blue-headed Red-eyed Yellow-throated (east end after class) 6 Flycatchers: Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher (singing) Others: Baltimore Orioles Indigo Bunting Gray Catbirds Swainson's Thrushes Marsh Wrens Soras Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper 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
