[mou] Duluth RBA 7/24/03

[David R. Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, July 24th, 2003, sponsored
by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

This week, Janet Riegle reported eight species of migrating shorebirds at
40th Ave West, including 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 4 STILT SANDPIPERS, 5
BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
LEAST SANDPIPER, and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.

Lynelle Hansen reported 26 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at Wisconsin Point on
the 20th.

Warblers have begun to migrate. The first sure migrants were 2 TENNESSEE
WARBLERS in Duluth on the 17th.

The next scheduled update of this report will be in two weeks, on Thursday,
August 7th.

The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and
callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of
each tape.

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 of Natural
History, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to
mou@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.