5/7/17 Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Bloomington Visitor Center Trailhead 8 - 10:00 am Field trip Report
Lots of birds were moving through in the trees along the hillside trail. Mainly Yellow-rumped Warblers, but we did see a couple Black-and-white, Orange-crowned, Palm and a Yellow Warbler there as well. Here are a few of the species observed by our group: Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Virginia Rails - Heard only Sora - Heard only Northern Rough-winged Swallow House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Brown Thrasher Black-and-white Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Palm Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Baltimore Oriole Note a complete list of the birds observed on our walk can be found on the EBird Web site. Here are the dates of some upcoming MNWR bird walks. The walks begin at 8:00 am and there is no fee for the walk. May 13 - Bloomington Visitor Center May 15 - Louisville Swamp Unit May 16 - Bass Ponds These walks begin at 8:00 am. MRVAC Field Trips: May 9 - Carver Park Reserve May 14 - Ritter Farm Park - 8:30 am - Led by Cheri Fox For more information on these walks please contact me. 952-240-7647 Craig Mandel Hennepin County - Minnetonka [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
