Early migrants continue to meander their way into Carver County. Migrants seen on August 10 at Rapids Lake MVNWR were Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Northern Waterthrush, and an immature Golden-winged Warbler moving with two Blue-winged Warbler that were likely migrants as well. There was still a decent number of mostly male Yellow Warbler around. Of course there is no way to know which were migrants and which were local breeders. The only female Yellow Warbler I saw was feeding two juvenile.
I saw a slightly surprising variety of migrant warbler this morning at the landscape arboretum. Numbers were what one would expect though. This included a Northern Waterthrush, a female Golden-winged Warbler, a Black-and-white Warbler, 5 female/immature American Redstarts(probably mostly migrants), an adult Magnolia Warbler, 2 Yellow Warbler(one of these likely a migrant, the other I'm not so sure), a Chestnut-sided Warbler, and a female Canada Warbler. I have seen more warbler species through August 11 this month than the first eleven days of any prior August. 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
