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Regulus calendula, or what we call spring in Minnesota…

April 24, 2009

Regulus calendula

Regulus calendula

There is hope…a Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) showed up at our bird bath today. This beautiful little migrant bird marks an end to this very long winter in Minnesota, probably a week or so ahead of the Warblers that will be coming through in May. Last year, on a hike along the Mississippi river, near St. Paul, in early May, we saw an amazing variety of Warblers in a small stretch along Crosby Lake. The usual suspects, Yellow-rumped, Magnolia, and the Black and White, but also, less common occurances, Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, Palm, and Yellow. I try not to think about what we didn’t see…Oh, and while we’re talking birds, Redpolls showed up at our feeders this year in April, a first in our yard, very unusual for St. Paul.

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