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: Golden-winged Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Black and White Warbler, chestnut-sided Warbler, American Redstart, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Blackburnian Warbler, Pine Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Purple Martin, Whip-poor Will, American Woodcock, House Finch, Purple Finch, Wild Turkey, House Wren, Sedge Wren, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Gray Catbird, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Eastern Kingbird, Great-crested Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Bobolink, Bald Eagle, Turkey Vulture, Broad-winged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Common Raven, Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, Common Loon, Mallard, Canada Goose, Great-blue Heron, Sandhill Crane, Northern Harrier, American Kestrel, Killdeer, Hooded Merganser, Ring-neck Duck, Blue-winged Teal, American Goldfinch, Brown Thrasher, Red-winged Blackbird, Belted Kingfisher, and Ovenbird. 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 4,017,500 birds crossed over Crow Wing County!   
 
 
 
 

Happy Birding!

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