[mou] Green Heron, 14 spp. of warblers at Indian Point

[Laura Erickson]

This morning on Duluth Audubon's weekly May Warbler Walk at the Western 
Waterfront Trail, we listed 56 species.  Our 14 warblers included several 
Wilson's Warblers, an extremely cooperative Canada Warbler, and lots of 
redstarts and Yellow Warblers.  One Northern Waterthrush sang, but didn't 
come into view.  We had several long and satisfying looks at an 
Orange-crowned Warbler, too.

One Green Heron called and flew over.  One of our participants located a 
Virginia Rail in the large cattail stand near the entry late yesterday 
afternoon, but we didn't see or hear it this morning.

Our lists from our weekly walks at Park Point and the Western Waterfront 
Trail can be found on the Duluth Audubon website or at:

<http://www.lauraerickson.com/Birds/Bird%20Walks/Spring2004Species.html>

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.  In both 
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly 
unchanged.  And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of 
change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the 
darkness.

                                 --Justice William O. Douglas