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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *September 14, 2006 *MNST0609.14-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: September 14, 2006
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
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Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday September 14th 2006.
Brian Smith found a juvenile SABINE'S GULL on the 9th at the Sleepy Eye sewage ponds in Brown County.
On the 10th, Randy Frederickson and Peder Svingen refound the juvenile POMARINE JAEGER from the viewing platform just north of the Sky Harbor airport on Park Point in Duluth.
A PLEGADIS IBIS was reported on the 9th at Swan Lake in Nicollet County. It can be seen from the Conservation Club access where the bird feeds on the mudflats a few hundred yards to the north.
A SAY'S PHOEBE was found by Bill Unzen along the auto tour route of the Big Stone N.W.R. in Lac Qui Parle County on the 4th.
On the 9th, three PARASITIC JAEGERS and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL were seen over Lake Superior in Duluth. Most of these birds appeared to have been found toward the end of Park Point.
At the Sand Point trailhead at Frontenac State Park, Goodhue County, Bill Litkey found a CAROLINA WREN on the 9th.
A WHIMBREL was at the south end of the Sky Harbor airport runway at Park Point in Duluth on the 11th. On the 12th, a male HOODED WARBLER was about 150 yards east of the Warner Nature Center's Trailside Museum in Marine on St. Croix, Washington County. Other migrants seen recently include WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, and WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, September 21st 2006.
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