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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *March 15, 2001 *MNDU0103.15 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: March 15, 2001
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)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, March 15, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The tape-recorded versions of these Birding Reports have sometimes become
inaudible in recent weeks; if this problem continues and until it can be
fixed, note that the transcripts of the reports can still be read on the
MOU's web site
There have actually been a couple signs of early spring migration in Duluth
this week, with sightings of CANADA GEESE in the St Louis River and Bay,
and with some migrant raptors counted by Frank Nicoletti during his annual
spring hawk count on W Skyline Pkwy. His best count so far this month was
yesterday the 14th with 101 BALD EAGLES, 6 GOLDEN EAGLES, an imm gray-morph
GYRFALCON, and a N GOSHAWK; today his count included 3 Golden Eagles and 2
goshawks. Speaking of Gyrfalcons, there was a report yesterday of an imm
Gyr in Superior near the McDonald's on Hwy 53, and the ad gray-morph Gyr
which has been wintering in the vicinity of the Cargill grain elevator in
the Duluth harbor was reported again last weekend.
Otherwise, there has been little change in the birding this week: both
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are still being reported,
especially in the Sax-Zim Bog, in the Aurora-Hoyt Lakes area of St
Louis Co, and in Aitkin Co.; a few BOREAL OWLS continue to be reported,
some of them unfortunately dead from starvation, with the most recent
live Boreals on 90th Ave W near Morgan Park, on the 300 block of
Minneapolis Ave, and at an undisclosed address somewhere on Martin Rd;
a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER was relocated last weekend on the Spruce Rd in
Lake Co, 1.5 mi from Minn Hwy 1 (this road turns N off Hwy 1 about 14
mi NW of Co Rd 2); and that male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE is still present at
or near Canal Park in Duluth, with a report of it today on the lake
side of Park Point at 8th St.
One winter specialty which has changed in abundance recently is the
BOHEMIAN WAXWING, after being hard to find most of the winter, flocks of
them have become more frequent with reports this week in Duluth near the
Lake Superior Zoo, at Hartley Field, on Livingston Ave, along Strand Rd,
and along Congdon Blvd near Brighton Beach.
Other birds of note reported this week include: both RED-BELLIED
WOODPECKER and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW seen yesterday on the 3000 block of E
1st St (both these birds probably overwintered in this neighborhood); a COMMON
GRACKLE in Lake Co along Scenic Hwy 61 (which also probably wintered); and
that successfully overwintering YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER in my yard which was
seen again March 13 for the first time in nearly 3 weeks.
Unless something unusual is seen in the meantime which needs to be reported
immediately, this report is normally updated once a week on Thursdays, so
that the next scheduled update will be on March 22. The phone number for
the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 525-5952, and callers can report bird
sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. Messages
can also be left without having to wait for the report to end: to do this,
after the tape starts playing push 5 on a touch-tone phone, the tape will
stop, the tone will sound, and you can then leave your message.
The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota
Ornithologists' Union (MOU) 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 SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to
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