[mou] Fwd: Swainson's Warbler! Lake Vadnais (Ramsey County)

[KCTEPO00]

I've been asked to forward this message to the MOU list, as I had sent it originally only to mnBird last night; I will submit documentation to the MOU today.  How do you post to the Rare Bird Alert?:
 
On May 9, 2008:  KCTEPO00 at smumn.edu wrote:
 
I saw many birds today on a nearly 5-hour walk through the Grass, Snail, and Vadnais Lakes today, but the highlight was a Swainson's Warbler at Lake Vadnais.  Mistaking it at first for a Waterthrush when it flushed, I watched it and observed an olive-brown back, slightly richer brown cap, thick white stripe above the eye, and a light yellow/gray wash on its underside.  It was lurking in and around some standing water in dense brush.
 
Other favorites on the day:
Orioles, Soras, Sedge Wren, Lincoln's Sparrow, Black-throated Green & Wilson's Warblers (among several others), Spotted Sandpipers, Veery, Common Loons (nesting pair?), family of Red-Breasted Mergansers (female with 3 or 4 young; no male found), Blue-Headed Vireo, and more
 
Kyle TePoel
St. Paul
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