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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *November 18, 2004 *MNST0411.18 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: November 18, 2004
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Wednesday, November 17th.
What has been tentatively identified as a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD has been visiting the backyard feeder of Laura Erickson in Duluth since the 16th. Laura lives at 4831 Peabody Street at the corner of 49th Avenue East. this is five blocks from Superior Street. Birders are welcome to look from her backyard.
At Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, the first-winter CALIFORNIA GULL continues to be present in the late afternoons on the western side of the lake. It was seen as recently as the 15th.
NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are still easy to find in northern Minnesota. Check especially along St. Louis County Road 7 and the roads that intersect it. Also check along U.S. Highway 53 near the town of Cotton between mile markers 43 and 45.
GREAT GRAY OWLS are also being reported in very high numbers. More than 140 have been seen, mostly in St. Louis, Lake, and Cook counties since the end of August. Birds are most easy to find in the Sax Zim Bog area of St. louis County. this is a large region about 40 minutes north-northwest of Duluth, bounded on the south by St. Louis County Road 133 and on the east by county road 7.
And on the 13th, a SNOWY OWL was found near the Grand Marais harbor in Cook County. It was near the water along the inner side of the eastern break wall.
TUNDRA SWANS are gathering on Pool 8 of Mississippi River near Brownsville in Houston County. Upwards of ten thousand were estimated to be here on November 15th. And a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was found at Peterson Lake in Wabasha County on the 13th.
At Lake Byllesby in Dakota County, two DUNLIN and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER were seen on November 13th.
An AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER was reported in the Sax Zim Bog, just west of the railroad tracks on Kolu Street.
And a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was reported on the 16th from Sherburne County. It was on 253rd Avenue about a mile and a half east of county road 5.
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