Festival of Birds at Detroit Lakes, MN is in mid-May.
Heaviest migration period of the year. Birds arriving include:
Spotted and Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Plovers and American Bitterns.
Least and Great-crested Flycatchers, Eastern Kingbird, Gray-cheeked and Wood Thrushes, Eastern Towhees, Gray Catbirds, Black-billed Cuckoos,
Common Nighthawks, Eastern Wood-Pewees and Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos.
Common Yellowthroat, American Redstarts, Ovenbirds, Tennessee, Nashville, Golden-winged, Northern Parula, Black-throated Green, Black and White, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, and Yellow Warblers.
Scarlet Tanagers, Sedge and Marsh Wrens, Bobolinks, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Indigo Buntings.
Clay-colored, Grasshopper, Savannah and Harris' Sparrows.
Purple Finches are leaving for the north.
Summer Tanagers may show up.
Wild Turkeys' eggs are hatching.
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles are back.
