The warblers were incredible at Murphy. In all the years I've birded spring migration, this was the best. They were crawling everywhere as soon as you hit the trail working low in the vegetation. Other notables: all vireos except Blue-headed, Scarlet Tanagers at eye level, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, many Empids, Baltimore Oriole, Yellow-bellied Ssapsucker, Clay-colored Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Sedge Wren, House Wren, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Swainson's Thrush, Eastern Bluebird and a Pileated Woodpecker nest on the trail. Heard Common Loon, Pied-billed Grebe, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Cooper's Hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk. Common Nighthawks flying over driving in.
Here are the 18 warbler species seen: Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Hooded Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Palm Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Wilson's Warbler Absent: Wood Thrush, Indigo Bunting and Rose-breasted Grosbeak and several warblers. Deanne Endrizzi Burnsville, Dakota Cty. ____________________________________________________________ NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up now. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT1 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
