Judd Brink is a local guide and naturalist who provides a weekly birding report during the spring bird migration, the summer nesting season, and the fall bird migration for Visit Brainerd. This is the 11th season Judd has provided birding reports about the Brainerd Lakes Area.

Birds Spotted in the Brainerd Area:

Today’s birding report comes from the Brainerd lakes area: Bald Eagle, Osprey, Cooper’s Hawk, Turkey Vulture, Broad-winged Hawk, Great-blue Heron, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Mallard, Canada Goose, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Blue-winged Teal, Woodduck, Ring-billed Gull, Trumpeter Swan, Common Loon, Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Kingbird, Great-crested Flycatcher, Whip-poor- Will, Purple Martin, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Yellow Warbler, American Redstart, Black and White Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Wild Turkey, Red-winged Blackbird, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House Finch, Purple Finch, Eastern Phoebe, Baltimore Oriole, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Chimney Swift, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Happy Birding! If you want to share a photo or have a unique bird sighting please email them to info@birdminnesota.com.

Please note that while you are enjoying our many lakes, young loons are learning and exploring on those same lakes, so please be careful around loon families.

Summer Birding Locations:
  • French Rapids ( Mississippi River): Waterfowl
  • Kiwanis/Rotary Park (Mississippi River): Waterfowl and Warblers
  • Northland Arboretum: Sparrows, Warblers and Tanagers
  • Crow Wing State Park: Songbirds, Waterfowl and Warblers
  • Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge: Sandhill Cranes
Judd Brink is the owner of MN Backyard Birds and can help make your home and or business more active and attractive for our feathered friends with bird scaping! We hope you can share the joy of watching birds from your home or with others when visiting one of the many great birding areas found in the Brainerd lakes.