[Mnbird] Myre-Big Island State Park

[Allen Batt]

  I’ve been spending my free time birding at Myre-Big Island State Park. There were nice waves of warblers on the Great Marsh Trail yesterday, but some were waving goodbye. The warblers were mostly American Redstarts, but there was a nice mix of other species. The water levels in the ponds are low and the mudflats brought in shorebirds. Many a patient Green Heron maintained its own office space for hunting. Deer walked through the sucking mud, leaving them black-legged on shore after quenching their thirst. Turkeys and squirrels made the same long muddy walk to drinking water. A great flock of Great Egrets perched in the trees and a leucistic Eastern Kingbird glowed in the leafy green foliage. A Red-eyed Vireo sang backup vocals to everything I saw. “Here I am. In a tree. Look at me. Vireo.” I savored every moment. 
 As I drove home at dusk, Albert Lea presnted a lovely sky of Common Nighthawks.

Al Batt
Freeborn County


Al Batt

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