This morning Maureen & I covered 7+ miles of Wm O'Brien's trails on the
west side of Hwy. 95. For the most part there weren't a lot of birds,
but we had some interesting finds.
Just the best:
Am. Bittern - FOY
Sora - 2, heard only
Horned Grebe - 1 on the pond inside the Prairie Overlook Trail loop,
still showing some winter plumage
Hooded Merganser - 1 male on same pond
Wood Thrush - heard 2-3, visual confirmation on 1 of them; FOY
Ovenbird - 2 heard only; FOY
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 heard; FOY
Palm Warbler - ~6
Yellow-rumped Warbler - surprisingly few
Pine Warbler - a pair foraging very close together on ground just S of
Visitor Center; male was the extreme yellow, female the extreme dull
plumage shown in "The Warbler Guide"; both landed ~10' away & were
examined with 10x binoculars; FOY
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - numerous (we couldn't confirm any GCKI, though)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 heard only; FOY
House Wren - 1 heard only; would be FOY except we heard 1 at home
earlier today
Sedge Wren - heard 2-3; FOY
Eastern Towhee - they seemed to be singing from everywhere
Brown Thrasher - heard a few
Swamp Sparrow - not that special, except we estimate that we SAW well
over 75 of them, including a flock of 30+, and a flock of 20+.
White-throated Sparrow - just a few seen & heard
Ron Refsnider
Coon Rapids, MN
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