[mou] Lake Superior bird kill in today's Duluth News-Tribune

[Laura Erickson]

The bird kill in the Grand Marais and Tofte area last week was the subject
of a story in today's Duluth News-Tribune, at

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/12631420.htm

I've been trying to keep current information about the bird kill on my
blog at

http://birderblog.com/bird/FTBTranscripts/2005-September/BirdKill.html


Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

Staff Ornithologist
Binoculars.com
www.birderblog.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


>
>
> This morning at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Hennepin County I
> enjoyed the pleasure of seeing an adult female Black-throated Blue Warbler
> in the sunshine.  The Warblers were very active early and I saw several
> Blackburnian, Golden-winged, Black-and-white, Ovenbird, Northern
> Waterthrush, an adult male Mourning, Northern Parula, Nashville, American
> Redstart, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, and many Common
> Yellowthroats.
>
> There also was an adult male non-breeding Scarlet Tanager, Philadelphia
> Vireo, Great Crested Flycatcher, and the Carolina Wren is still around and
> was singing!
>
> Conny Brunell
> Richfield, Hennepin Co.
> connybrunell@earthlink.com