After the Mays of 2013 and 2014, May 2015 has been rather unexceptional. Warbler variety on a day to day basis was pretty good, but migrant counts each of those days was generally unimpressive. There were no significant fallouts, and migrants were typically quite scattered and not in large groups. Migrant vireo numbers were poor and migrant thrush numbers were not high closer to what I expected before the spring of 2013. Continuing with the theme, migrant flycatcher numbers were unimpressive as well. After the very poor fall 2014 season for Lincoln's, White-crowned, and Harris's Sparrow this spring wasn't much better. I even turned up significantly fewer White-throated Sparrow compared to the past few springs. The most unusual birds this month were a Loggerhead Shrike on May 22 at Rapids Lake MVNWR and a White-faced Ibis on May 26 at the Chevalle neighborhood wetlands.
Warbler species seen each day followed by cumulative migrant warbler counts May 6 13 May 7 20 May 8 20 May 9 18 May 10 16 May 12 16 May 13 17 May 15 17 May 16 20 May 17 16 May 20 16 May 21 15 May 22 12 May 23 14 May 24 13 May 29 5 Ovenbird 21 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Waterthrush 22 Golden-winged Warbler 23 Black-and-white Warbler 22 Tennessee Warbler 183 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Nashville Warbler 75 Connecticut Warbler 1 Mourning Warbler 4 Cape May Warbler 2 Northern Parula 8 Magnolia Warbler 39 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 11 Chestnut-sided Warbler 28 Blackpoll Warbler 24 Palm Warbler 39 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 122(includes April counts, following up a relatively poor fall last year with a relatively poor spring for this species) Black-throated Green Warbler 12 Canada Warbler 8 Wilson's Warbler 29 Numbers of summer resident warbler(Blue-winged, Prothonotary, Yellowthroat, Redstart, Cerulean, and Yellow) seemed relatively normal John Cyrus ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
