Help! What's the incessant whistling little bird that wakes me at dawn: da da DA da dad DA with a few spits and squeaks in between. I think it's medium high in the canopy and won't be here for long. Any ideas? Mary Westra White Bear Lake
Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Chad Heins <[email protected]> wrote: > First, sorry about the Laughing Gull that was a Franklin' > Hey birders, > > First, sorry about the Laughing Gull that was a Franklin's Gull. We didn't > get the right lighting on the bird until right before sunset and because it > was unable to fly, we only got views of the upper wing when it stretched. > There was limited white in folded primaries and underside of primaries were > dark. Finally, we were able to view a little white between the gray of the > wings and the black wingtips. A sweet torment after a very long day. I only > confirmed yesterday after returning to my reference library. > > > Andrew Krenz and I attempted to break our previous record in the county of > 139. With the screwy spring, we were not sure how this was going to go, but > there were just enough birds lingering from early pushes and some new > arrivals as well. We ended up with 140 species. > > Summary: 13 waterfowl, 2 grebes, 3 herons, 5 hawks, 15 shorebirds, 3 doves, 2 > owls, 6 woodpeckers, 5 flycatchers, 4 vireos, 5 swallows, 6 thrushes, 20 > warblers, 12 sparrows, 9 blackbirds. Big misses: Wild Turkey, Cooper's Hawk, > Brewer's Blackbird. > > > All of the warblers were gotten around Wilson's Lake and near Fedji Lake in > the eastern part of the county. There was lots of shorebird habitat along > ditches in the northern part of the county west of La Salle. Apparently the > heavy thunderstorm of the previous week caused some flooding out there. > > We had a couple of oddities in the night. One sounded like a Common Poorwill > calling from a farmstead northwest of Madelia. The bird was calling in the > distance and we moved closer to see if we could hear it better and (of > course) it stopped. We used a tape to try and coax it to begin again, but no > dice. Our other nocturnal oddity we had multiple times. When playing an > Eastern Screech-Owl trill, we had a bird respond with a call note that > sounded like an Eastern Towhee. This happened 5-6 times. Towhee is a hard > bird to get in the county and we did a dance the first time we heard it. > However, it kept happening at all our stops. It was either a "shu-wink" or > "shink". We ended up removing Eastern Towhee from our list at 9:00pm when we > pulled up to another woodland edge and got that bird to call again. Anyone > have any ideas? Swainson's Thrush? > > We're still waiting for warblers, shorebirds, and flycatchers in Blue Earth > County, so hopefully those will show up for our Big Day on Saturday. > > Happy birding! > > Chad Heins > Mankato > > > > > > > "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and > they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the > Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
