I spent most of the day searching for Longspurs on the Felton Prairie north of Clay County 26 with some additional stops on the way home. I totaled 100 species for the day with 17 warblers.
The highlight for me was definitely a very vocal and active male GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER (I just had my lifer yesterday). I also had two male CAPE MAY WARBLERS across the street from it. The only Longspurs I had were 4-6 male CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS and one female. Species list (Total: 72 Warbler: 14) Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Canada Goose Mallard Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk (nesting) Bald Eagle Greater Prairie-Chicken Sandhill Crane Killdeer Upland Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Marbled Godwit Wilson’s Snipe Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker (nesting) Eastern Phoebe Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Western Kingbird Warbling Vireo American Crow Blue Jay Horned Lark Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Bank Swallow (nesting) Cliff Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow (nesting) House Wren SedgeWren American Robin Swainson’s Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Cape May Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Wilson’s Warbler American Redstart Rose-breasted Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Le Conte’s Sparrow Song Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow Chestnut-collared Longspur Western Meadowlark Bobolink Common Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole American Goldfinch Additional species not from Felton Prairie (28 species): Pied-billed Grebe (Agassiz Audubon Center, Polk County) American White Pelican (Polk C) Wood Duck (Agassiz Audubon Center) Gadwall (Polk C) Blue-winged Teal (Agassiz Audubon Center) Northern Shoveller (Polk C) Ring-necked Duck (Agassiz Audubon Center) Sharp-tailed Grouse (Polk C) Hudsonian Godwit (Agassiz Audubon Center) Least Sandpiper (Polk C) Wilson’s Phalarope (Polk C) Chimney Swift (Warren, Marshall County) Downy Woodpecker (Ada, Norman (?) County) Hairy Woodpecker (Ada) PileatedWoodpecker (Alvarado, Marshall County) Red-eyed Vireo (Ada) Loggerhead Shrike (Polk CR 68) Common Raven (Polk C) Black-capped Chickadee (Ada) Gray-cheeked Thrush (Agassiz Audubon Center) Cedar Waxing(Ada) Black-and-white Warbler (Ada) Orange-crowned Warbler (Agassiz Audubon Center) Yellow-rumpedWarbler (Polk C) Lincoln’s Sparrow (Ada) Swamp Sparrow (Agassiz Audubon Center) Yellow-headed Blackbird (Polk C) Pine Siskin (Warren) Bill Blackburn Minnesota Audubon Warren, MN Sent from Windows Mail
