This afternoon, 17 April 2017, Erika and I found an Orange-crowned Warbler at the western unit of the Cannon River Wilderness Area in Rice County. It fed in the tangles near the ground. The bird appears to be eating a small beetle in the photograph in our eBird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36048394 eBird flagged this warbler as rare and, although shy of the earliest MN record ever, it is among the earliest. dan and erika -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota daner...@gmail.com http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet...Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ....”—H. D. Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
