[mou] Cerulean Warbler at the Bass Ponds

[Leo]

Hello everyone. We went to the Bassponds in Hennepin Co. this morning at 
about 10:00 to take a look around. Heading for the White-eyed Vireo 
location between markers 4 and 5, we started to hear an odd call. About 
3 other people were there looking for the call as well, but we just 
couldn't find it. They departed, but we stayed, listening. After awhile 
it came back to the exact same spot and sang more. Looking up the call 
in the book the bird we landed on was a Cerulean Warbler. Excited, we 
must've stayed for forty five minutes. The bird made loops around the 
area, disappearing, then coming back right to the same spot. After 
glimpses of white belly, dark band across it's chest, and flashes of 
color, we finally lucked out and caught a good look at it, confirming 
almost positively that it was a Cerulean. We spotted some of the people 
from earlier nearby and brought them over to find it. Happily, they both 
caught a good look at it, as did another man coming from the other 
direction. It seems pretty steadily there. It disappears for 8 minutes 
or so, then reappears in almost the same spot. Terrible to try and find 
a glimpse of it though. It finds the best places to sit right out of 
view. It is very, very vocal however, so you can be sure to hear it.

In response to the email of a Black-throated Gray earlier, I'm pretty 
sure we are talking about the same bird, as I think you were in that 
spot earlier. However, we positively ID'd it as a Cerulean.

On another note, one of the birders there relocated the White-eyed Vireo 
that we had assumed had left near the bridge over the creek. We went to 
find it, but couldn't relocate it.

Good birding everyone!
- Leo Wexler-Mann