[mou] Bell's Vireo, Cliff Fen, Burnsville, Dakota Co.

[linda whyte]

Today's moderate temperatures and dry breezes made a walk in Cliff Fen
mosquito-free and pleasant. The usual summer residents were there in
force to be seen and/or heard, including a brown thrasher who glided
across the trail right in front of me. In the tall bushes directly
across the path from the second power stanchion, there was a Bell's
vireo singing vigorously from a series of high perches.(This is the
same general area where a pair of them nested last year.) Farther down
the path to the east, could be heard the same song, from bushes in the
field to the left, or north, of the trail.
Linda Whyte