On Saturday I convened the annual MRVAC Hok-si-la warbler weekend field trip and started down the path with about 40 participants. Actually, we had a hard time getting out of the parking lot with all the good warblers demanding our attention. By the end of the morning we had 21 species of warblers. We had at least 3 Prothonotaries, although most people only saw the one that greeted us by the parking lot. The most common warbler was the Northern Waterthrush, with lots of Black and Whites, Yellow, and Parula. Missed warblers included Bay-breasted, Cape May(which I saw today in my yard), Ovenbird, Mourning, Canada, and Connecticut. Somebody had claimed to have found a Connecticut at the Sand Point trail head, but we found the bird they described and it was a female Common Yellowthroat. Under represented warblers included the Tennessee and Palm. There were lots of Orioles, but few thrushes, vireos and sparrows. Yet, by the time we left Frontenac that beautiful afternoon we had over 90 species. We found nothing unusual. Highlights, besides the Prothonotary, Pine, male Blackburnian, included a female Red-breasted Merganser, a flock of Willow Flycatchers, and one very hungry and lonely fawn. We also watched as female Cooper's Hawk caught lunch in the pines (perhaps one of the pine warblers). No one swam to Sand Point.
Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
