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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *April 20, 2006 *MNDU0604.20 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: April 20, 2006
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
Transcriber: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, April 20th, 2006 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
A male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported by Norma Malinowski on the 14th at the Embarrass rice paddies in east-central St. Louis County. This area of large impoundments is east of the Embarrass River and can be reached from the Waisenen Road (CR 362) south of Embarrass.
Jason Caddy found a female BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER today along the Lake Nichols Road, two miles east of CR 7. He also found seven SHARP- TAILED GROUSE and two BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES along CR 29, just north of Meadowlands.
Sixty AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were counted at the West Skyline Hawk Count in Duluth between the 14th and the 16th. Peder Svingen found one on the 15th at Interstate Island in Duluth, and Sue McDonnell saw two flying along Highway 61 in Lake County today near Palisade Creek. Sue also had her first CHIPPING SPARROW in her Cook County yard on the 14th.
Carol and Jim Tveekrem found a male PINE WARBLER today in their yard in Schroeder, Cook County. Mike Hendrickson found a PALM WARBLER on Park Point in Duluth on the 19th.
An adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen on the 15th at the West Skyline Hawk Count, and the first BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were seen on the 16th.
Other recent spring arrivals in the area include BREWER'S BLACKBIRD on the 19th, SWAMP SPARROW on the 17th, COMMON SNIPE on the 16th and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD on the 14th.
Kim Risen saw a late-lingering SNOWY OWL in Aitkin County on the 14th, south of Palisade. Small numbers of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen in the Lakeside neighborhood over the weekend, and in Two Harbors on the 18th.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, April 27th.
The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded 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 to mou@cbs.umn.edu, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.
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