This past week has seen quite the surge in Yellow-rumped Warbler numbers. Most
Yellow-rumped were seen in groups of 2-5 with the largest flocks of 10-15
birds. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary this week with the most
unusual bird being a Rough-legged Hawk south of Norwood this morning.
Select counts
April 10 Rapids Lake MVNWR
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9
Hermit Thrush 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 40 (scattered mainly along the river and west of Rapids
Lake)
American Tree Sparrow 3
Field Sparrow 7
Vesper Sparrow 3
Savannah Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Eastern Meadowlark 8 (wondering if 4 of these were young from previous years as
4 were just feeding in the sand right below one that sang normally from its
territory just above them)
Purple Finch 2
April 12 Rapids Lake MVNWR
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12
Hermit Thrush 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 48 (more west of lake and south of visitors center than
along the river compared to the 10th)
Field Sparrow 7
Vesper Sparrow 1
Eastern Meadowlark 3
Purple Finch 2 (in the same tree as the 10th)
16 waterfowl species across rural Carver County including 12 Common Merganser
on Maria Lake and 40 Red-breasted Merganser on Lake Waconia
Rice Lake
3 Greater Yellowlegs (few other distant probable yellowleg species)
~350 Pectoral Sandpiper (on April 10 there were no shorebirds and very few
ducks, so this flock of Pectoral was likely a new flock compared to those seen
the previous weekend)
Bonaparte's Gull 8
April 14 Carver Park
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 60
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Osprey 3
Sandhill Crane 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Phoebe 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 23
Hermit Thrush 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 45
American Tree Sparrow 1
Chipping Sparrow 5
Field Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 12
White-throated Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 13
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Lake Waconia
Red-breasted Merganser 19
Common Loon 1
Horned Grebe 1 (possibly more as there were several more grebe-sized birds
further back from the one)
American Coot (large rafts all week)
New Germany area
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 2
Blue-winged Teal 50+
Green-winged Teal 10
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Assumption Lake
Brown Thrasher 1
Rice Lake
Greater Yellowlegs 30+
Lesser Yellowlegs 50+
Pectoral Sandpiper (few mixed in with a mainly Lesser Yellowlegs flock,
additionally ~75 shorebirds too far to positively ID of likely Yellowlegs and
Pectoral species based only on size/shape)
Bonaparte's Gull 1
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