[mou] Birds in Duluth

[Michael Hendrickson]

Yesterday I had a Common Grackle at my feeder which isn't great news but hey its winter and grackles in NE Minnesota is not a common sight.  On Monday I refound 400+ Bohemian Waxwings at Park Point that Shawn Zierman reported last Sunday. They pretty much wipe out most of the crab apples around the ball field area but there is still a lot of crab apples along the road way as you enter the park so more than likely they will move to these trees later on this week or this weekend. I counted 310 Common Goldeneyes in the canal under the Ariel Lift Bridge at Canal Park. I also counted 100 Herring Gulls and two Red-breasted Mergansers.

Today I headed over to Allison Clark's residence to search for the Varied Thrush (address on Duluth RBA) and after about 30 minutes of waiting for the thrush it made a short appearance around 12:45pm.  During my wait I also saw a White-throated Sparrow, 5 Robins and a Blad Eagle cruising over my head.

In my yard I still have 8 Northern Cardinals and a 12 Dark-eyed Juncos.  Occasionally I have some Pine Grosbeaks in the yard feeding on crab apples.

I'll be out tommorrow scouting some other areas for the Christmas Bird Count this weekend.
 
Mike Hendrickson
Duluth, Minnesota
Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/
Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/


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