Thanks for sharing, I will try and go there sometime soon since I live in St. Paul and love to try new spots. I kayak a lot near Pig's Eye and have a protonotary spot that I hit every year and now I think there were at least two or more nests.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Gregory Jahner III <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening, > > I’m reaching out to all of you to share a relatively unknown great birding > location in Washington County. Riverside Park in Saint Paul Park is a > great > area to bird for many reasons. In the past year the city officials and > workers have been very gracious and have allowed me to help make this > a “birder friendly” park in many ways such as, placing a fly through feeder > near the trail entrance that is stocked year round, placing a Prothonotary > Warbler bird house along the river, and they are currently working on > placing at least two informational bird signs along the trails. They city > has > also been working on a prairie restoration project at this park for the > past > couple of years. Riverside Park is by no means the largest park in the > county to bird but its location along the Mississippi River and old growth > woods makes up for its lack of size. All the trails are groomed and most > are quite wide except for the single track trail along the river which is > narrow but still groomed and very “birdable”. > > If you do venture to this park there is no parking lot, only street parking > which at the end of 13th ave. (the nearest cross street is 13th ave. and > 1st > street). Google maps has this park located at 11th ave., however this is > inaccurate so please disregard google! If you go there looking for > Prothonotary Warblers, last year they were readily heard and often seen > near the river bottoms. The Prothonotary bird house I placed along the > river is not accessible by foot but can readily be seen from a high spot on > the cliff along the single track trail. Also, if you eBird Riverside Park > is a > hotspot. > > Here’s my list from birding there today: > 29 species total > 6 Canada Goose > 6 Mallard > 1 Blue-winged Teal > 5 Green-winged Teal > 1Turkey Vulture > 4 Bald Eagle > 2 Belted Kingfisher > 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker > 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker > 3 Downy Woodpecker > 2 Hairy Woodpecker > 2 Norhern Flicker > 2 Eastern Phoebe > 2 Blue Jay > 3 American Crow > 12 Black-capped Chickadee > 4 White-breasted Nuthatch > 8 Brown Creeper > 10 Golden-crowned Kinglet > 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet > 2 Hermit Thrush > 5 American Robin > 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler > 3 Fox Sparrow > 12 Dark-eyed Junco > > Greg Jahner > Saint Paul Park > Washington County > > ---- > 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
