[mou] Duluth RBA 6/19/03

[David R. Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, June 19, 2003, sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

YELLOW RAILS can be heard in many places near McGregor in Aitkin
County. At least three are present to the west of the Fireside
Restaurant just north of state highway 210 on state highway 65, and
there are at least five birds  along 65 in the first mile south
of 210, plus at least four more along 65 near the intersection with
the dead end gravel road about 2.5 miles south of 210. NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS are singing south of the jct. of 210 and 65 and south
of the jct. of 210 and 16 in Tamarack.

A GREAT GRAY OWL was in the Sax-Zim Bog of St. Louis County on the
17th. It was seen along County Road 7 about four miles south of Stone
Lake Road. Another Great Gray Owl was seen in Aitkin County on the
18th about 100 yards down the snowmobile trail that runs south of the
junction of County Road 18 and Pietz's Road. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER and a
BOREAL CHICKADEE were found along this trail on the 14th.

Kim Risen reported DICKCISSELS in Pine County, including one bird just
north of the jct of Cty Rd 48 and Cty Rd 21.

Kim Eckert reported a PHILADELPHIA VIREO from the parking lot of
Crosby-Manitou State Park.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, June 26th.

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
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