This afternoon I heard and saw a Hooded Warbler and Prothonotary Warbler at Riverside Park in St. Paul Park (Washington County).
Hooded Warbler: Park at the 13th avenue entrance. From the wooded trail head (not the field trail head) the trail starts with a "Y", go to the right of the "Y" which starts behind the metal swing gate. Follow that down a steady sloped trail roughly 75 to 100 yards until you reach a metal bench, this is the area where I heard and saw it. Link to info about Riverside Park: http://www.stpaulpark.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={91594175-C5C7-4B34-893C-B860160718E7}&DE={6F12D5EC-FD7B-49D7-8AC7-A1CD5F5A24AD} Prothonotary Warbler: From the bench mentioned in the directions above, head south (left) down the trail for roughly 100 yards, this is approximately where I heard it first. There are several openings that give way to good access to the river bottom and views across the channel to the next island which is where the Prothonotary was calling from. Eventually it did fly to my side of the channel and I was able to get excellent views! ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
