Yesterday I entered a Prothonotary Warbler sighting into the MOU database. I did not realize at the time I found the bird that it was out of range and would probably be a first county record. I got a couple of calls asking me about the bird. Here are the details.
At Lake Maria State Park drive toward the boat landing. Go past the "rare turtle crossing" sign (A snapping turtle working a nest in the road yesterday, but no Blandings.) to the intersection where you would turn left to go to the boat landing. There is a pond that extends to the right from this intersection. I heard the bird across the pond in the woods maybe 50 yards to the right of this intersection. Prothonotary is one of the warblers I can hear and to me it had the distinctive "cheep cheep cheep" call, much slower and more melodic than the calling swamp sparrows. I never saw the bird but listened to it call repeatedly for 10 minutes. I am not 100 % certain that this is what I had and would welcome others taking a look/ listen for another opinion. Good luck. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
