Hi All—
Last week I banded a Harris’s Sparrow in Northfield, Rice Co. I have only
one other spring record for the county. A photo is posted on my blog--
http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com/
dan
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Dan or Erika Tallman
Northfield, Minnesota
daner...@gmail.com
I think it might be since we have more diffuse light with all the clouds the
colors appear brighter? Or perhaps it is because everybody recently changed
into their new breeding clothes? Even the orioles seem brighter to me.
sue on Melody Lake, Edina
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On May 22, 2013, at 12:39
I am so excited!! We have a red-headed woodpecker at our feeder! It was here on
and off for the last hour. It's the first one we've seen here in our Chaska
townhome in the 8 years we've lived here. We back up to a ravine and preserve
area filled with streams and trees, off Bavaria Road and
With Great Egret and Green Herons.
Loring Park
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I found large numbers of warblers this morning along the river at Grey Cloud
Dunes SNA. In particular, singing Tennessee Warblers were present in very high
numbers, making it difficult to ID other birdsong. Highlights included 15
warbler species, Black-billed Cuckoo, Olive-sided Flycatcher,
Our FOY Scarlet Tanager is at the grape jelly right now with an assortment of
Baltimore and orchard orioles, catbirds and two Tennessee Warblers.
John Nelson
Good Thunder MN
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Say's Phoebe on the north end of the longspur road, sallying after insects on
the east side of the road. This is only a mile or so from the SAPH found by
the MBW group earlier.
Horned Grebe still present on the lake here.
Doug Kieser
Paul Budde
Mark Ochs
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Total of 17 species foraging in the sand at just 2 sites on the L Superior side
of Park Point: 12th St access (14 species along a 100-yard stretch) and at 31st
St (11 species visible by the platform). All of them in the beach sand by the
water, not in the grass or shrubs in the dunes. Did not
An adult Red-headed Woodpecker showed up in our yard today. It poked around
in fresh sapsucker drillings on a birch. First one we've seen in many years.
On May 19, a pair of Green Herons began constructing a nest in a balsam fir,
about 15 ft up. The tree is in our yard, between our house and Lake
Hi,
I thought it worth menioning that another Lazuli Bunting was seen this spring
and it was found by Nancy Voges of rural Courtland, MN on 5-15-13. Nancy wasn't
familiar with this species and asked me to help ID some photographs that she
took of it. Nancy provided some additional information
This morning, May 22, Garrett Wee of Cottonwood MN photographed what appears to
be a possible White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73121423@N07/8783909796/in/pool-79514222@N00/
The location was at Lone Tree Lake in Lyon Co: from Cottonwood go 1.5 mi W on
Hi birders,
JoAnn Stark, Noel Paukert, my wife JoAnn, and I birded the wildlife drive at
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge around mid-day yesterday. Highlights
included a male Gadwall and Caspian Tern on the first pond when you turn left
to enter the the drive.
We walked the half-mile
Today, May 22, 2013, I saw a Northern Mockingbird in Sturgeon Lake, Pine
County, MN. The bird was observed in the side yard and back yard of the house
at
the corner of 1st Ave. and Towne St. It also spent some time in the side yard
of
the house on the corner of Towne St. and Market St. The
The last four days of birding in Duluth have been fantastic.
The fallout of warblers which occurred on Sunday, May 19th continued
for four straight days! I have never known this to happen, but the strong
Northeast winds, rain, and fog which grounded the birds on the 19th continued
until Wednesday
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