I live near Cook, MN and this area experienced that late freeze in May as well. I have been looking around town at the crab apple trees and have not found any with fruit.
I have been seeing white-winged crossbills and common redpoll around here too, but no waxwings. Pine grosbeaks have been showing up. I often see my FOS feasting on crab apples but that was not the case this year. I wonder if anyone living on the shores of Lake Vermilion that have crab apple or mountain ash trees might have been spared from that freeze considering the lake might have moderated the overnight lows. Juliann Grahn > On Nov 6, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Shawn Conrad <itascabir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The lack of crabapples and other fruit extends away from the Shore as > well. I'm in Itasca County and numbers of seed-eating finches like > redpolls and crossbills have been very good lately, but so far no waxwings > at all. > > In addition to the drought, we had a hard frost in late May that killed > blossoms on many fruit trees and shrubs--particularly crabapples. The > crabapple yields around here are terrible, though if you actually find a > few good trees, they should draw birds. > > Shawn Conrad > Itasca County > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 4:47 PM Rich Hoeg <richardh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As a fyi, I live in Duluth and bird the North Shore constantly. The pygmy >> crab apple crop in the Duluth area is poor. This fruit will not be >> attracting birds late this fall or winter. The Mountain Ash trees are okay, >> but the yield is not super (assume for both the apples and mountain ash >> this is because of the drought). >> . >> However, I just arrived in Grand Marais about an hour ago, and the >> Mountain Ash trees are amazingly loaded with fruit. I have to believe in >> the near future the birds migration south, per normal, will make a major >> stop in Grand Marais. Tomorrow I will work the Gunflint Trail and then >> backroads to the Arrowhead Trail down to Hovland. >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social >> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. >> > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
