Saw 2 broods today in Loring Park in Minneapolis. Few migrants, a single White-throat and a small flock of Yellow-rumps Manley Olson Downtown Minneapolis
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steve Weston <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday (Friday) I saw my first two Canada Goose broods of the year. > Interestingly, they were on a small pond bordering the rail yards by > highway 280. > > Today, the warblers are interfering with my concentration on a project I > have been working on pulling me outside for a walk around the yard. > Warblers about the yard are mostly Yellow-rumps, but also included a > couple of Ovenbirds, which were not around at all last weekend. I also > heard an Oriole in the area. > > A strange bird for the middle of the day was the bat that was flying over > the lake. I hoped it would come close enough to make an ID, but it moved > away. My best guess was that it was a big brown. > As it flew close to a tree with a couple of Crows, one gave chase, and the > bat effortlessly side-stepped the attack. The Crow then flew to the water > and plucked something from the surface. I then watched as a Red-winged > Blackbird chased a Spotted Sandpiper (FOY) about the lake never more than > six inches above the surface. > > 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
