[mou] Late Eastern Bluebird?

[Steve Weston]

Hi Chris, et al.

I have been seeing them around still in good numbers.  They are  late fall 
and early spring migrants.  they typically are still around into November 
and stragglers, especially in the south, are found into December.  I 
remember a couple of years ago about a half dozen were found along the 
Minnesota River just before Christmas on the Bloomington count.  I also 
remember sighting one on January 1st down in Wabasha county.  I don't think 
we counted it because we could not eliminate the possibility that it was 
might have been a Townsends Solitair.

They usually start arriving back in with warm weather in March, although 
historically they use to be seen in February.  I believe that my earliest 
sighting was about March 1st on an unseasonably warm day near Miesville.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
sweston2@comcast.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Fagyal" <cfagyal@avianphotos.org>
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: [mou] Late Eastern Bluebird?


> All,
>
> I just spied a juvenile Eastern Bluebird in my backyard sitting in my 
> Mountain Ash.  Isn't it a bit late for it to be hanging around?
>
> Chris
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