Hey all- My family and I were in the BWCA out of Brule Lake from the 9th through the 14th. We had pretty standard boreal birding, which of course was great. Highlights were bog birds on the west end of Brule Lake, including YB Flycatcher, Boreal Chickadees, and Gray Jays. Elsewhere were a number of breeding warbler species, though they were far more easily heard than seen, and even then not singing too much. Weather was great for the five nights there, and bugs were few, only becoming bad at dusk.
Today we stopped by the Old Cedar Ave bridge in Bloomington, and had a brief look at a Least Bittern flying over the vegetation and dropping down to hide again. This is the only kind of look I've had at them at this site, unfortunately - the looks are never long. Jesse Ellis Madison, WI -- Jesse Ellis Post-doctoral Researcher Dept. of Zoology University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, Dane Co, WI ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
