For those of you wondering where the migrant birds are or went, as I am, a lot of them are still working their way north. Roger Everhart monitors weather radar to detect large migration movements. Monday, he reported Sunday night radar images showing many migrant songbirds moving north from the Gulf states. They were concentrating in the mid-Mississippi Valley, to our south. He says these birds will be creeping north over the next couple of weeks. Roger lives in Apple Valley, where he operated the North Central Bird Observatory. We spent the past few days in Burnett County in northwestern Wisconsin. Birding was OK at its best, but many species were represented by one sighting. We wondered if the winds had simply blown them over us. This Golden-winged Warbler was one of our sightings.

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