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*July 27, 2000
*MNDU0007.27

-Birds mentioned

• Great Gray Owl
• Lark Sparrow
• White-winged Crossbill

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: July 27, 2000
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, July 27, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

There were unexpectedly a few reports of interest this week in NE Minn: two GREAT GRAY OWLS at 2 new Cook Co locations, and some WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS and a LARK SPARROW in Duluth.

One of the Great Gray Owls was seen July 24 by Ele Colburn along Forest Rd 315, 1.1 mi N of the Lima Mountain Rd -- the Lima Mt Rd (or Forest Rd 152) turns W off the Gunflint Trail about 20 mi N of Grand Marais, and 315 turns N off 152 about 2 mi W of the Gunflint Tr. There was also a second-hand report of another Great Gray seen last week along Forest Rd 166, 2 mi W of the Sawbill Trail (or Cook Co Rd 2) -- 166 turns W off the Sawbill Tr about 7 mi N of Tofte.

(Note that last week's Birding Report also mentioned 2 other Great Gray Owls being seen last week: one of these in the Sax-Zim Bog along St Louis Co Rd 133, 1.2 mi W of U S Hwy 53; and the other in Cook Co about 8 mi from the end of the Gunflint Trail, 1/4 mi S of the Kekekabic trailhead.)

Dave Benson reports that a small flock of White-winged Crossbills were in his yard yesterday on the 400 block of 16th Ave E in Duluth, and today Howard Munson found a singing male Lark Sparrow at Park Point just S of the Sky Harbor Airport buildings.

Finally, note that it is not to early to start thinking about attending the annual Hawk Weekend activities in Duluth, which are scheduled every year on the 2nd weekend after Labor Day -- this year on Friday Sept 15 through Sunday Sept 17. More information on this Weekend will be given in the coming weeks on this Birding Report, but in the meantime keep in mind that lodging in Duluth that weekend will be difficult -- if not impossible -- to find without reservations made well in advance.

Unless something unusual is seen in the meantime which needs to be reported immediately, the Duluth Birding Report is normally updated once a week on Thursdays, so that the next scheduled update would be on August 3; however, if nothing of significance is reported in the Duluth area before then (as is often the case at this time of year), the next update would not be until 2 weeks from now, on August 10. The phone number is (218) 525-5952, and callers can leave a message if they wish after the tone at the end of the tape. Also note that a message can be left without having to wait for the birding report to end: after the tape starts playing, push 5 on a touch-tone phone, the tape will then stop, the tone will sound and you can leave your message.

The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU), the state bird club, as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church Street S E, Minneapolis MN 55455, or visit the MOU web site at .

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