While I haven’t posted over the past 10 days partially due
to time and partially due to the ever decreasing variety, birds seen have been
pretty much what one
would expect this time of year.
Select counts Sat. Oct. 15
Lake Waconia
Northern Shoveler 2
Green-winged Teal 1
Redhead 74
Lesser Scaup 2
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Eastern Phoebe 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Carver Park
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 13
Field Sparrow 2
Fox Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 9
Harris’s Sparrow 1
Sun. Oct. 16
Lake Waconia
Gadwall 2
Redhead 83
Ruddy Duck 4
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Carver Park
American Wigeon 11
Northern Shoveler 27
Hooded Merganser 4
Double-crested Cormorant 25
Eastern Phoebe 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9
Hermit Thrush 1
Nashville
Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Chipping Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 8
Harris’s Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Tues. Oct. 18
Lake Waconia
Gadwall 16
Canvasback 1
Redhead 2
Carver Park
Trumpeter Swan 11
American Wigeon 18
Green-winged Teal 20
Hooded Merganser 2
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Eastern Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 2
Fox Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 19
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Rural Carver County
Great Blue Heron 1
Salem Ave.
American Pipit 4
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Thurs. Oct. 20
Lake Waconia
Canvasback 2
Redhead 100+
Lesser Scaup 4
American Coot 400+
Carver Park
American Wigeon 22
Northern Shoveler 80
Green-winged Teal 10
Hooded Merganser 6
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
American Tree Sparrow 11
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Purple Finch 4
Sat. Oct. 22
Lake Waconia
Canvasback 4
Lesser Scaup 5
Redhead, Shoveler, and Coot uncounted
White-throated Sparrow 2
Salem Ave.
Killdeer 1
Lapland Longspur 3
Rusty Blackbird 2
Brewer’s Blackbird 200+
Savannah Sparrow
4
Harris’s Sparrow 1
Rapids Lake MVNWR
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
American Tree Sparrow 6
Fox Sparrow 32
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 10
Harris’s Sparrow 3
Sun. Oct. 23
Lake Waconia
Ruddy Duck 24
Carver Park
Gadwall 4
Northern Shoveler 1
Ring-necked Duck 7
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Fox Sparrow 9
White-throated Sparrow 5
Mon. Oct. 24
Chevalle neighborhood wetlands(Chaska)
Black-bellied Plover 1
Killdeer 1
Tues. Oct. 25
Lake Waconia
(quietest day on the lake over the past 2 weeks with fewer Ring-billed Gulls
and fewer Coot)
Wood Duck 3
Redhead 1
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Common Loon 1
Herring Gull 1
Carver Park
(only covered a couple of spots and ½- ¾
of trails but was definitely the quietest day since early April)
Canada Goose 120
Wood Duck 2
Gadwall 5
American Wigeon 13
Northern Shoveler 15
Lesser Scaup 1
Hooded Merganser 7
Fox Sparrow 11
White-throated Sparrow 4
Purple Finch 1
New Germany
area
Killdeer 5
Long-billed Dowitcher 5
Tilled fields along Cty. Rd. 51
2250+ Red-winged Blackbird
250+ Brewer’s Blackbird
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