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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *September 2, 1999 *MNST9910.02 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: September 2, 1999
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@uswest.net)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday Septempber 2nd sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Over the weekend CLARK'S GREBES were seen on both Thielke Lake in Big Stone County and on Clear Lake in Stevens County.
On August 30th, Peder Svingen and Karen Sussman surveyed Lake Winnibigoshish and counted 103 COMMON LOONS and 935 BONAPARTE'S GULLS.
Also over the weekend in Traverse County there was a report of an unidentified ibis seen only as a fly-by, and only for a brief time. The location was near Lake Traverse about 1/8 of a mile from the dam which crosses into South Dakota.
Craig Mandel found 23 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES on August 31st at the Lake Lillian sewage ponds in Kandiyohi County, and he also found five at Boone Lake along the Renville - Meeker county line, and on the same day 24 were counted by Tony Hertzel at the Crookston ponds in Polk County.
Interesting was the report of a female BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER in a Brainerd backyard on both August 19th and 20th. Crow Wing County is quite far north for this species.
Warblers continue to filter through on their southward migration, and as many as 16 species have been reported, among them BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. The Black-throated Blue was seen in Dakota County at Patrick Eagan Park which is along Lexington Avenue just north of Diffley Road in the town of Eagan.
And finally, a good movement of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH has been noted by many observers across the southern portions of the state.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday Septempber 9th.
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