Have had a busy weekend of birding. Just now today we had a Pine Siskin at our backyard bird feeder in Bloomington, Hennepin County. The first one at our feeders in almost two years.
On Saturday I went birding at the Bass Ponds in Bloomington and managed to see 17 species of warblers and 2 (maybe 3) species of Vireos. Highlights: Green Heron - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Caspian Tern - 1 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Warbling Vireo - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Golden-winged Warbler - 1 (F) Tennessee Warbler - 5 Nashville Warbler - 2 Northern Parula - 2 Yellow Warbler - 11 (at least) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Palm Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Redstart - 4 Ovenbird - 1 Northern Waterthrush - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 7 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 2 Also birded at Veteran's Park in Richfield on Friday evening. Saw mostly the same birds as on Saturday with two different highlights being an unexpected female Orchard Oriole and one Cape May Warbler. Ben Harste Bloomington, 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
