[mou] Birding Hyland Park Reserver 5/21

[Richard Wood]

Hi all,

Last night, I birded at Hyland Park Reserve in Bloomington with Linda Whyte and Curt Rawn.
Traffic was horrible getting from Minneapolis to the park (still not as bad as the Dan Ryan in Chicago during rush hour was), but I got there around 6:10 or so.  Microsoft Streets on my laptop at work told me it would take about a half hour to get there; it took a half-hour just to get to I-35 from my office.

Anyway, it was nice to get out and see some birds after being cooped up in a classroom for two days. and listening to someone lecture us about medicinal chemistry as it relates to drug design.  While it was interesting for the most part, it was nice to get back into nature.

Here's what we saw:

Red-tailed Hawk|Hennepin|20080521||||
Wild Turkey|Hennepin|20080521||||
Red-winged Blackbird|Hennepin|20080521||||
Song Sparrow|Hennepin|20080521||||
Tree Swallow|Hennepin|20080521||||
American Goldfinch|Hennepin|20080521||||
Ring-necked Pheasant|Hennepin|20080521||||
Gray Catbird|Hennepin|20080521||||
Northern Rough-winged Swallow|Hennepin|20080521||||
Blue Jay|Hennepin|20080521||||
Black-capped Chickadee|Hennepin|20080521||||
Downy Woodpecker|Hennepin|20080521||||
Mallard|Hennepin|20080521||||
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher|Hennepin|20080521||||
American Robin|Hennepin|20080521||||
Chipping Sparrow|Hennepin|20080521||||
Eastern Bluebird|Hennepin|20080521||||
Northern Flicker|Hennepin|20080521||||
Brown-headed Cowbird|Hennepin|20080521||||
Wood Duck|Hennepin|20080521||||
House Finch|Hennepin|20080521||||
American Crow|Hennepin|20080521||||
Common Merganser|Hennepin|20080521||||
Green Heron|Hennepin|20080521||||
Canada Goose|Hennepin|20080521||||
Hooded Merganser|Hennepin|20080521||||
Eastern Phoebe|Hennepin|20080521||||
American Redstart|Hennepin|20080521||||
Ruby-throated Hummingbird|Hennepin|20080521||||
Great Egret|Hennepin|20080521||||
Great Blue Heron|Hennepin|20080521||||
House Wren|Hennepin|20080521||||
Olive-sided Flycatcher|Hennepin|20080521||||
Yellow-rumped Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||
Great Crested Flycatcher|Hennepin|20080521||||
Blackburnian Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||
Wilson's Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||
Osprey|Hennepin|20080521||||
Eastern Wood-Pewee|Hennepin|20080521||||
Chestnut-sided Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||
Common Yellowthroat|Hennepin|20080521||||
Canada Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||
Least Flycatcher|Hennepin|20080521||||
Yellow Warbler|Hennepin|20080521||||


The highlights for me were the baby Osprey on its nest and the Olive-sided and Least Flycatchers.  Unfortunately, I missed the Bay-breasted Warbler that Linda saw.

Good birding,
Richard

 
Richard L. Wood, Ph. D.
Hastings, MN
rwoodphd at yahoo.com



      
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