My name is Judd Brink, the owner of MN Backyard Birds.  I can help make your home/business more active and attractive for our feathered friends with birdscaping!  Judd Brink is also a guide and naturalist and will provide a weekly birding report during the spring bird migration, the summer nesting season and the fall bird migration for Visit Brainerd. It’s great to be back again for the 11th season posting the weekly birding reports for the beautiful Brainerd lakes area.
I hope you will enjoy and follow the weekly birding reports from Visitbrainerd.com.  If you want to share a photo or have a unique bird sighting please email them to info@birdminnesota.com.
MN Backyard Birds will also share some birdscaping tips on how you can attract and enjoy more birds at home!  Thank you.
 
TIme to think spring! Here is  what you can do to help attract them.  A few quick ideas: birdhouses are a nice way to encourage birds to stay close to home with their own nesting box!  Another is to think about native plantings that can provide fruits, cover, nesting and shelter! Now is also the time to get up any woodduck boxes and other nesting boxes they will be nesting very soon.  I have found eggs in several of the boxes that I checked already!    NOW is the time to clean out your Oriole and Hummingbird feeders and get them up!  Also be aware of birds hitting the glass around our homes. It’s a huge problem with millions and millions of birds dying each year!  If it’s an issue try to break up the see through and reflection of the  glass with strings, decals, streamers.  
 
Today’s birding report comes from the Brainerd lakes area: Common Loon, Great-blue Heron, Trumpeter Swan, Woodduck, Mallard, Canada Goose, Hooded Merganser, Ring-billed Gull, Bald Eagle, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, Osprey, Broad-winged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Cooper’s Hawk, Wild Turkey, Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, Black and White Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Pine Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Yellow Warbler, American Redstart, Magnolia Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Ovenbird, Veery, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Belted Kingfisher, Sandhill Crane, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Tree Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Purple Martin, Whip-poor Will, American Woodcock, Eastern Bluebird, Pileated Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Common Raven, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Eastern Phoebe, Red-winged Blackbird, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Purple Finch and Red-headed Woodpecker. Happy Birding!  
 
Check out this link below to see how many birds are migrating over Crow-wing County, in the search box enter any county in the state to see the numbers of birds.  Sunday night into Monday morning 1,748,600 birds crossed over Crow Wing County!   
 
 
 
 
Spring  Birding Locations:
French Rapids- ( Mississippi River) waterfowl 
 
Kiwanis/Rotary Park (Mississippi River) waterfowl and warblers 
 
Northland Arboretum-  Sparrows, warblers, tanagers
 
Crow-wing State Park –  Walking/biking trails, songbirds/waterfowl/warblers
 
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge – NOW see migrating Sandhill Cranes!
A great time to think about birdscaping your yard to help attract more colorful birds!  Ask for native fruiting trees and shrubs to plant around the house or cabin to bring in more birds naturally!
 I 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.

Happy Birding!

Attract and Enjoy more birds with Birdscaping!
 
Judd Brink – Owner/Guide
Cell (218) 838-4784
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