Tuesday, May 21, 2013



We continue our spring birding mania, although we have to admit the peak of the warbler migration  has occurred in our area.  We met a man in Forestville on May 18 who had come up from Colorado to bird.  He said he had good luck, but not great luck in southern Minnesota.  He was headed up to the northern part of our state to see the warblers in their natural habitats and maybe pick up a few more species. ( So we figure he is even more obsessed than we are)   Pictured above is the American Redstart.  Common in our area, we will see them through the summer.  They are very quick little birds and hardly sit still long enough to photograph, but this little guy was accomodating.