[mou] White-winged Crossbill, Boreal Chickadee - Scenic State Park

[shawn conrad]

I spent the better part of yesterday hiking (OK, bushwhacking...this wasn't the scenic part of Scenic) on the east side of Coon & Sandwick Lakes in Scenic State Park.  Most notably, lots of passerines have gone silent compared to a few weeks ago.  I only heard 5 warblers the entire day and they didn't include Yellow, Black-throated Green, Northern Parula, Black-and-white, or American Redstart!  No pewees, Least Flycatchers, or Veery.  In fact, a full day on the east side (largely inacessible except to the very determined) of Scenic only turned up 33 species, but a few good ones:
 
- A male White-winged Crossbill greeted me by singing from the top of a spruce on the west side of Hwy 7, just as you reach the park's southern boundary
 
- I found a Boreal Chickadee, a Gray Jay, and a Blue-headed Vireo in one of the bogs on the east side of the lake (I don't have better directions)
 
- There were 2 families of Pileated Woodpeckers present...one to the south, one to the north
 
- A few Pine Warblers were still singing from the old growth pines on the east shore of the lakeShawn Conradhttp://users.2z.net/itasca_chippewa_birding/ 
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