[mou] Murphy-Hanrehan-Cerulean, Hooded, Bell's Vireo

[Diana Doyle]

During Jim Egge's spring warbler walk at Murphy-Hanrehan this morning  
we heard then saw a cerulean warbler. I assume he'll post the details.

After the walk, a group of us (Diana Doyle, Laura Coble, Susan  
Plankis, Linda Whyte, and Matt Spalinski (as he said, "the other one-- 
not the one at TRC") continued on toward the hooded warbler area.  
After listening and looking for about an hour, we had a couple of  
great looks at the hooded warbler. It sang from near marker 13.

Returning around 2:00, we saw what we believe was a Bell's vireo,  
just to the west of marker 11. It was very close to the path, a few  
feet up, in some thickets along a wetland area. Some of our  
collective comments and observations included: definitely a vireo but  
described by one person as "kinglet-like" because it was small and  
active, a weak eye ring, no supercilium, no spectacles, a thin "weak"  
wing bar but no a bold wing bars, very active: it moved continually  
in the wetland brush, one observer noted it bobbing its tail.

Diana Doyle
S. Minneapolis


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