In Clay County, the ROCK WREN, and the two SAYâ?TS PHOEBES, are still being seen daily. To view these birds, begin in the town of Felton and travel south on State Highway 9 for two miles. Turn east on County Road 108 and drive to the T-intersection. Follow the gravel road left and north to the gravel pit area.

Mary Broten reported a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK at her feeder in Marshall County on May 29th. Mary lives about one-eighth of a mile west of U.S. Highway 59, roughly 12 miles north of Thief River Falls.

On May 31st, Drew Smith found a second summer LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at the west end of Black Dog Lake in Dakota County.

On June 1st, Bruce Baer reported a BELL’S VIREO from the Hogback Ridge Trail, east of the State Highway 77 Bridge at the Bass Ponds area of Bloomington — check the willows along the edge of the lake. Brian Smith found a Bell’s Vireo on the same day in the willow thickets on the west end of the Rosenau/Lambrecht Wildlife Management Area, which is west of New Ulm, in Brown County, along U.S. Highway 14. To reach the location, turn south off U.S. Highway 14 onto 200th Avenue, and search the thickets to the east.

Matt Mecklenburg found a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in rural Clay County on June 1st, at the 15,5XXâ?”block of 60th Avenue South. And on May 31st, Pam Perry had a Northern Mockingbird visit her yard in Brainerd, in Crow Wing County.

On June 2nd, a singing HOODED WARBLER was found by Al Schirmacher along the Blue Hill Trail of Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge in Sherburne County. This location was about a ten minute walk from the parking lot.