We had a first spring male Orchard Oriole visiting our grape jelly
feeder all weekend.
Char Wenger
Coon Rapids, MN
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Summer tanager north of Easton in Faribault County.
Canada goose goslings galore.
Pair of Caspian terns flying over Geneva Lake in Freeborn County.
Bad weather made for great warbling on Saturday.
Al Batt
Hartland
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Spent time on Crane for opening fishing and was able to do a lot of hiking and
birding. Somewhat slow, but a couple surprises for me as well. Nine warbler
sp. with N. Parulas, BLack-throated Greens, Yellow-rumps and Pine most
abundant. No Hermit Thrushes but a great look and song from a Wood
My Husband recently had major spine surgery and then a week later, came down
with an infection in a hip that he's never had problems with before. He
spent a total of 13 days in the hospital and has been having a difficult
recovery. So, to try and keep his mind off of his pain, I set up our 600mm
I spoke with the homeowner this morning who has been seeing the W. tanager. He
said that from 6-7am he sat on the patio (as he does every morning) watching
the birds and drinking his coffee. He DID NOT see either tanager, nor the
orchard oriole that was present Saturday and Sunday. He did
Backyard surprises continue every day. Yesterday it was a Tennessee
Warbler competing with the orioles and catbirds for the grape jelly.
This morning it was TWO Red-breasted Nuthatches, one on the bay window
feeder, the other on a nearby peanut feeder.
John Nelson
Good Thunder MN
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On Saturday we had our first Canada Goose gooslings!
On Sunday my neighbor's grand daughter came over and presented me with a
handful of morels from their yard and the park. Hu god! I checked
and the oak leaves are bigger than mouse ears. Tonight I will check my yard.
Steve Weston
Yesterday evening at about 8:00 I saw what I'm pretty sure must have been a
Eurasian Collared-Dove on the east side of L. Nokomis (closest cross street E
53rd St).
I was walking the pedestrian path and a mid-sized overall light gray bird flew
through the park area, alarm/flight calling,
The ground-feeding of canopy warblers under elm trees continues: This morning
Lake Nokomis's sidewalks included large numbers of yellow, palm, yellow-rumped,
tennessee, black-and-white, magnolia, and chestnut-sided all feeding on the
pavement.
Within the past couple of days I've also seen
Here is some information I received from an entomologist friend about what the
warblers might be eating:
When you first wrote tiny gray insects, I thought of springtails,
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/M1305.html. But when
you
said associated with elm, they are
15 species seen during lunch at the kitchen table. Indigo Bunting,
Red-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore Oriole, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and
Magnolia Warbler were highlights.
Bill
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Rochester, MN 55906
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Just got back from a few hours at Crosby Park in St PAul. The trail is pretty
wet and the trees have definitely leafed out in the past 3 days but there were
still birds to be seen. Warblers were staying higher up toward the canopy
making for more difficult views but still had 12 species on a
I found the same phenomenon on 52d Street between Nicollet and Lyndale
on Sunday. Feeding on the curb and in the street were
Blackburnian
Cape May (male and female)
Yellow
Palm
Nashville
Yel-rumped
Tenn
As well as Chipping Sparrows and White-crowned sparrows
Warren
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Hello - I birded at Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton (Ramsey County)
this morning.
It was very cold and I forgot my gloves. Between 6am and 8am there was
fairly good warbler activity.
I finally picked up Magnolia. I also got a very nice up close and personal
look at Eastern Kingbird.
Thanks Cyndi for your work!
I checked these two links and did a Google Image search of springtail and
that's a very good match with what I saw! And the size (1/16-1/8) is also a
match.
(The other link was not; they were not larvae.)
These tiny insects reminded me of an oblong version of those
This is new to me, but may be commonplace to others. I have a Red-bellied
WPecker coming regular to my Oriole feeder and getting his fill of oranges and
grape jelly... is this a common event?
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Hackensack/Longville
Cass County, Mn
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3 White-faced Ibis, and a nesting pair of Trumpeter Swan were observed
this evening at Black Rush Lake, Lyon County.
Also, I heard a sound I am unfamiliar with. It was a repeated Whrrirrr
note with a slight hint of an owl quality. This was heard from thick in the
marsh, two individuals were
I went down to Le Sueur County last night (5/15) out of curiousity because I
don't seem to hear many reports from this county and wanted to see what was
migrating through. Most of my birding was in the vacinity to the near east and
south of the city of Le Sueur. I was only out for a little over
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