The 2nd consecutive night(which has been rare lately) of favorable migrating conditions brought a significant arrival of migrants and/or summer residents to Carver Park Reserve. I birded from dawn for nearly 3.5 hours, but had other obligations later so I couldn't stay out as long as I would have liked. I walked 5.25 miles of trails accessed from the Grimm Rd. area(south of the main highway only). Today was the first day this year that Yellow-rumped Warbler and/or Ruby-crowned Kinglet were not the dominant migrant. Before today I had seen 11 warbler species for the year. Today there were 18 warbler species with multiples of many species. There was also a good variety of non-warbler species. Warbler and other notable counts are below.
Green Heron 1 Caspian Tern 7 Least Flycatcher 9 Great Crested Flycatcher 5 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue-headed Vireo 3 Warbling Vireo 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 (actually my high count so far this year) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 Swainson's Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 3 Brown Thrasher 4 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 3 Golden-winged Warbler 3 Blue-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 6 Tennessee Warbler 8 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 15 Common Yellowthroat 5 American Redstart 9 Northern Parula 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 3 Yellow Warbler 17 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 10 Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Scarlet Tanager 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Bobolink 5 Baltimore Oriole 4 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
