It was around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when Samuel Anderson looked out the window of his Fairview Avenue home and spotted a “funny looking fat little bird with a bright red belly” on his front porch, followed by a line of 10 men and women pointing cameras behind it.
The painted redstart had returned to Minnesota, for perhaps the second time in known history.
The #mnbird community is all a twitter today after a Painted Redstart was observed in St. Paul this morning, only the second time in history the species has been documented in the state. It's usually found only in the Southwest. pic.twitter.com/ZCJXcg1sjM
— Greg Seitz (@gregseitz) October 21, 2020
The dark-colored bird with a bright red belly, considered by some the most beautiful of the warblers, is better known for breeding in Southwestern mountain pine-oak forests and wintering in the tropics than hanging out near St. Paul’s Groveland Tap.
It’s unclear what brought the unusual visitor north. But word of its presence in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood sparked intense interest among the members of Minnesota’s ornithology community.
This Painted Redstart should be in Mexico and not St Paul, MN. Mac Groveland neighbored very confused buy the birding hoard in their hood. #birding #rarebirds pic.twitter.com/n63ubz743i
— Sharon Stiteler (@birdchick) October 21, 2020
Around 5:45 p.m., as Anderson explained his sighting to a reporter at Fairview and Princeton avenues, a bird watcher walking by with a camera said the painted redstart had flown over to St. Clair Avenue. Moments later, Cory Bedeaux of Bloomington parked her car and asked for the particulars.
“I’ve seen it in other places, but not in Minnesota,” said Bedeaux, who recalled an encounter years ago in Arizona. “It’s like a second state record. It’s a big deal.”
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