From birds at moosewoods.us Mon Aug 5 14:44:47 2024 From: birds at moosewoods.us (linda whyte) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 14:44:47 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Golden-winged and Tennessee Warblers Message-ID: A couple of surprises showed up in the banding nets yesterday at Spring Lake Park Reserve. It took a few seconds to recognizing the Tennessee Warbler, not expecting them to be moving back this way quite yet. A bigger surprise, was the Golden-winged Warbler in my hand.... I'd extracted both species earlier up north, but their presence August 4th this far south, seemed much less likely. These two may be among the "outliers" in their species, but it appears reverse migration could become as surprising this year as the recent weather patterns. Linda Whyte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snoeowl at aol.com Mon Aug 26 00:06:12 2024 From: snoeowl at aol.com (Allen Batt) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:06:12 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Warblers overpowering minute jelly feeders References: Message-ID: Ah, fall warblers. They are atwitter. The vastness of my world is revealed in the passage of these birds?a thrilling and memorable annual event for me. I jump on that teeter-totter between work and warblers. I look down at the work on my desk, and then I look out the window at the warblers. Hummingbirds drink sugar water and chase others away from a chance of drinking sugar water. I put out grape jelly in small amounts to prevent a bird from becoming mired in the sticky stuff. This past week, I've watched Baltimore Orioles, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Brown Thrashers, House Finches, Gray Catbirds, Downy Woodpeckers and warblers (Tennessee, Nashville, Yellow and Yellow-rumped) dine on the jelly. I?ve never seen so many warblers feeding on jelly. Tennessee Warblers have been the most regular of the warbler chowhounds. American Redstarts eyed the jelly, but I haven't seen them partaking of its sweetness. No grosbeaks around. The waterer is at its busiest but somehow becomes busier. Thanks to molts, I?m seeing balding blue jays. They should be on the brochure of the Feather Club for Jays. Enjoy every bird. Al Batt Freeborn County From suzblue2 at yahoo.com Mon Aug 26 07:53:15 2024 From: suzblue2 at yahoo.com (Yahoo) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 07:53:15 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Fwd: bird 8/25 References: <16BEE33C-1456-4B4A-B8F0-7E7587D86480@gmail.com> Message-ID: <9175C5D8-1B22-4F4E-8254-1338323F2BCC@yahoo.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Suzanne > Date: August 26, 2024 at 7:51:16?AM CDT > To: Suzanne Blue > Subject: Fwd: bird 8/25 > > ? > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Suzanne >> Date: August 26, 2024 at 7:06:00?AM CDT >> To: mnbird >> Subject: Fwd: bird 8/25 >> >> ?Can anyone identify this bird in Frontenac yesterday? Thank you. >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Peggy Knudsen >>> Date: August 26, 2024 at 6:59:35?AM CDT >>> To: Suzanne >>> Subject: bird 8/25 >>> >>> ? >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Al Batt > On Aug 26, 2024, at 9:20?AM, Yahoo via Mnbird wrote: > > ? > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Suzanne >> Date: August 26, 2024 at 7:51:16?AM CDT >> To: Suzanne Blue >> Subject: Fwd: bird 8/25 >> >> ? >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Suzanne >>> Date: August 26, 2024 at 7:06:00?AM CDT >>> To: mnbird >>> Subject: Fwd: bird 8/25 >>> >>> ?Can anyone identify this bird in Frontenac yesterday? Thank you. >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> From: Peggy Knudsen >>>> Date: August 26, 2024 at 6:59:35?AM CDT >>>> To: Suzanne >>>> Subject: bird 8/25 >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Mnbird mailing list > Mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cdrussin at centurylink.net Thu Aug 29 14:25:53 2024 From: cdrussin at centurylink.net (DONALD GRUSSING Owner) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:25:53 -0700 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness Message-ID: This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds and other wildlife. Lilac bushes in this region look like they were set on fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. Flowering crab apple trees losing most of their leaves, though there has been some regrowth. Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this blight is. Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing purple blossoms. Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers nevertheless. Our oak trees have produced no acorns. Usually we have a few hundred pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is cluttered, usually. Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and those birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents. I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. Don Grussing Minnetonka -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rebeccafield16 at gmail.com Thu Aug 29 14:30:56 2024 From: rebeccafield16 at gmail.com (Rebecca Field) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:30:56 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes, we have a group of 14 lilacs on the roadside here in Orono that fit your description. About 5 of them are blooming light lilac flowers! I thought they were dying but we?ll wait and see. I wonder what the blight is. Bad enough we have several dozen ash trees to take down in our woods. Rebecca Field On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 2:26?PM DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird < mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote: > This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds and > other wildlife. Lilac bushes in this region look like they were set on > fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. Flowering crab apple trees > losing most of their leaves, though there has been some regrowth. > > Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering > waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this blight > is. Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing purple > blossoms. Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers nevertheless. > > Our oak trees have produced no acorns. Usually we have a few hundred > pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is > cluttered, usually. Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and those > birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. > > Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents. > I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. > > Don Grussing > Minnetonka > _______________________________________________ > Mnbird mailing list > Mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lisa.gelvin-innvaer at state.mn.us Thu Aug 29 14:34:49 2024 From: lisa.gelvin-innvaer at state.mn.us (Gelvin-Innvaer, Lisa A (DNR)) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:34:49 +0000 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I live in southern Nicollet Co along the Minnesota River Valley. Our lilacs look like how Donald Grussing described. 3 years of drought plus a VERY wet spring have been tough on them. Surprisingly,though, crabapple and acorn production seem to be pretty good in our locale this year. Overall, in southern MN, it seems like phenology is off for a variety of plants, birds and pollinators from what I?ve observed. -Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer From: Mnbird On Behalf Of DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 2:26 PM To: mnbird at lists.mnbird.net Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness This message may be from an external email source. Do not select links or open attachments unless verified. Report all suspicious emails to Minnesota IT Services Security Operations Center. ________________________________ This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds and other wildlife. Lilac bushes in this region look like they were set on fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. Flowering crab apple trees losing most of their leaves, though there has been some regrowth. Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this blight is. Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing purple blossoms. Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers nevertheless. Our oak trees have produced no acorns. Usually we have a few hundred pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is cluttered, usually. Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and those birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents. I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. Don Grussing Minnetonka -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kslarson29 at gmail.com Thu Aug 29 14:35:31 2024 From: kslarson29 at gmail.com (Karen Larson) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:35:31 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4672CC12-A448-4485-9E9F-B42EFC416FB1@gmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbaumann-msd at outlook.com Thu Aug 29 16:20:53 2024 From: jbaumann-msd at outlook.com (Jeanne Baumann) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:20:53 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I believe the lilacs suffered from too much rain.? Only my re-blooming (bred to do that!) is not suffering from it.? However, all the ones that turned earlier in the summer now seem to be growing new leaves. It's my understanding that oaks produce acorns in different cycles.? Mine has a heavy year followed by a light year typically.? That said, I haven't seen a single acorn yet anywhere in the neighborhood.? Most of the oaks in my neighborhood have suffered from the drought and now an infestation of chestnut two-lined borers.? While most neighbors are having their oaks treated for that bug, I don't know if the borer affects acorn production. On 8/29/2024 2:25 PM, DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird wrote: > This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds > and other wildlife. ?Lilac bushes in this region look like they were > set on fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. ?Flowering crab > apple trees losing most of their leaves, though there has been some > regrowth. > > Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering > waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this > blight is. ?Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing > purple blossoms. ?Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers > nevertheless. > > Our oak trees have produced no acorns. ?Usually we have a few hundred > pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is > cluttered, usually. ?Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and > those birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. > > Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents. > I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. > > Don Grussing > Minnetonka > > _______________________________________________ > Mnbird mailing list > Mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yegrnaturenut at gmail.com Thu Aug 29 16:55:32 2024 From: yegrnaturenut at gmail.com (R. Yaeger) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:55:32 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] flowering crabapples losing leaves Message-ID: My arborist told me that it's no big deal when flowering crabapples lose their leaves in late July and August. He says it's some kind of fungus that does no harm since the trees have stored enough nutrients by that time that they will be fine the next year. So far, he's been right. But it's alarming when the tree is bare by mid August! Ruthann Yaeger Rochester -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From avsaxman at yahoo.com Thu Aug 29 18:56:05 2024 From: avsaxman at yahoo.com (Richard Schroeder) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1817060678.1368369.1724975765505@mail.yahoo.com> Here near Duluth, the Thimble Berries had no blossoms, therefore no fruit.? Further up the North Shore at Cascade State Park, only thimble berry plants near the water have any fruit, but what's there is tough & dry. A review of the weather conditions during thimble berry's early blooming season shows we experienced an unusually warm early spring (which got the plants moving in blossom mode) followed by hard frosts (killing the infant buds that would have become blossoms). While such a cycle can be enjoyable for humans (due to mosquitoes hatching early and then dying in large numbers due to the hard frost following their hatch), there's always an accounting for the seasons behaving differently than the plants and creatures evolved to thrive in. A "false spring" can wreak havoc on our expectations, and on Nature's components.? But it's not so unusual.? Every year you'll see, or read reports of, early Maple tree color changes in July or August.? Daffodils blooming in the fall, Currant Bushes budding in September, Spring Peepers and Boreal Chorus frogs and Wood frogs croaking in warm Octobers or Novembers.?? While we are unsettled by these "unusual" things, and we take pause to consider climate change and global warming, think deeper about it.? Warmer winters mean Emerald Ash Borers aren't killed off by extreme cold stretches, resulting in Elm trees becoming infested and dying in large numbers.? Warm or cold, wet or dry Spring conditions can contribute to disrupting or enhancing the Forest Tent Caterpillar numbers, even outside of their 6~16 year typical boom or bust cycle.? Those same fluctuations can improve conditions for Friendly Flies that prey on Forest Tent Caterpillars--or degrade Friendly Fly conditions, resulting in even greater masses of Forest Tent Caterpillars (you may know them as "Army Worms", but that's not their name.? - The name "armyworm" comes from agriculture, where infestations can look like an army moving across large fields.? However, forest tent caterpillars and armyworms are actually different species.?Armyworms have three pale stripes that run the length of their bodies, which stay constant no matter what their body color.)? I like predictability in weather & climate, and I'd like things to be like they were back in the 1960's & early 1970's--plenty of hard cold in Minnesota with streaks of -20F HIGH temperatures for multiple days, loads of snow, Aprils with showers that brought may showers, and peak fall colors in September instead of October. It's fun to observe the changes, but troubling to see change where it's unexpected. Keeping an eye out for it all, just like all of you do at your homes, I'm?Rick SchroederIn the Little Red HouseIn the Saginaw Wood On Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 02:27:13 PM CDT, DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird wrote: This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds and other wildlife. ?Lilac bushes in this region look like they were set on fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. ?Flowering crab apple trees losing most of their leaves, though there has been some regrowth. Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this blight is. ?Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing purple blossoms. ?Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers nevertheless. Our oak trees have produced no acorns. ?Usually we have a few hundred pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is cluttered, usually. ?Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and those birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents.I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. Don GrussingMinnetonka_______________________________________________ Mnbird mailing list Mnbird at lists.mnbird.net http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From 55norton55 at gmail.com Thu Aug 29 18:57:44 2024 From: 55norton55 at gmail.com (Pat Norton) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:57:44 -0500 Subject: [Mnbird] Strangeness In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The lilacs (and many other plants) have been affected by the moist weather we have had this spring and summer. There are fungi but also bacterial infections, like Pseudomonas Syringae, that have affected lilacs in particular. The best mitigation is sanitation - pick up the fallen leaves and do not compost them, but throw them away. If you prune shrubs, clean your loppers with a bleach solution between cuts and after pruning. Might be best to prune after hard frost. Pruning will likely affect flowering in the next year depending on if the flowers form on old wood or new wood. Here is info on the bacteria: https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/extension/pseudomonas-syringae-pv-syringae-on-lilac-and-other-woody-ornamentals-landscape-report/ On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 4:21?PM Jeanne Baumann via Mnbird < mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote: > I believe the lilacs suffered from too much rain. Only my re-blooming > (bred to do that!) is not suffering from it. However, all the ones that > turned earlier in the summer now seem to be growing new leaves. > > It's my understanding that oaks produce acorns in different cycles. Mine > has a heavy year followed by a light year typically. That said, I haven't > seen a single acorn yet anywhere in the neighborhood. Most of the oaks in > my neighborhood have suffered from the drought and now an infestation of > chestnut two-lined borers. While most neighbors are having their oaks > treated for that bug, I don't know if the borer affects acorn production. > > On 8/29/2024 2:25 PM, DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird wrote: > > This has been a strange year and might pose some problems for birds and > other wildlife. Lilac bushes in this region look like they were set on > fire. Leaves withered and appearing scorched. Flowering crab apple trees > losing most of their leaves, though there has been some regrowth. > > Does that mean there will not be any crab apples for the wintering > waxwings or the early robins. I have no idea how widespread this blight > is. Strangely, a long row of lilacs near here is now bearing purple > blossoms. Not as beautiful as in the spring, but flowers nevertheless. > > Our oak trees have produced no acorns. Usually we have a few hundred > pounds hauled for deer in relative's woodlots. And still the ground is > cluttered, usually. Not this year. What will the squirrels do, and those > birds who can find and consume the acorn worms. > > Or even the crows and hawks that get nutrition from road killed rodents. > I don; t know if this is just a local problem or widespread. > > Don Grussing > Minnetonka > > _______________________________________________ > Mnbird mailing listMnbird at lists.mnbird.nethttp://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Mnbird mailing list > Mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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