Minnesota Statewide RBA

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Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: November 19, 1998
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)

This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday November 19th sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Three EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES were found in the town of Lynd, Lyon County on November 14th. They apparently roost in the three spruce trees found on the corner of River Street and St. Albans Street.

On Saturday November 14th a PACIFIC LOON was seen from the boardwalk at Canal Park in Duluth.

Peder Svingen found an ICELAND GULL on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry at the end of Park Point in Duluth, along with an adult GLAUCOUS GULL on the 14. A single GLAUCOUS GULL and an ICELAND GULL were also seen in Grand Marais, Cook County on the 16th. A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was still on the west side of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis on November 17th. And on the 14th a GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL was seen by Michael Tarachow on Black Dog Lake in Dakota County. This may be the same bird that has been seen occasionally on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.

In Rochester, Olmsted County, a CAROLINA WREN was seen again at Leslie Kottke's feeder on November 18th. TUFTED TITMOUSE, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS and FOX SPARROWS are also occasionally visiting the feeders. Please call Leslie before visiting.

A ROSS'S GOOSE was at Alexander Park in Faribault on the 15th and again on the 17th.

Jim Eikenberry and Dave Thurston found a SHORT-EARED OWL hunting over a plowed field adjacent to the Breckenridge sewage ponds in Wilkin County on October 28.

A VARIED THRUSH is being seen in Crow Wing County 12 miles north of the town of Crosby.

A tanager, probably a female SCARLET TANAGER, was seen briefly at Darryl Moen's feeder in the town of Buffalo, Wright County on the 14th.

For information on joining our state wide bird organization write the MOU at

10 Church Street SE University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN, 55455

or e-mail us at MOUMembers@aol.com. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday November 26th.

Send your rare and unusual Minnesota sightings to our electronic hotline: MnRBA@linux.winona.msus.edu. To learn more, send a message (the message being these two words: info end) to mnrba-request@linux.winona.msus.edu.




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