[mou] Duluth RBA 6/26/03

[David R. Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, June 26, 2003, sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on the 23rd along Pietz's Road north of  Aitkin
County Road 18 on a telephone pole a couple of hundred feet past the large
wood pile on the east side of the road.

Peder Svingen found an EASTERN MEADOWLARK near Brighton Beach in Duluth on
the 24th.

Reviewing from prior reports, the most recent GREAT GRAY OWL reports have
been at the location above in Aitkin Cty and in the Sax-Zim area on Cty Rd
52 near Owl Ave and on Cty Rd 7 North of the Sax Rd. YELLOW RAILS, NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, and LE CONTE'S SPARROWS are all relatively easy to
hear in Aitkin Cty at McGregor Marsh at the Jct of Hwy 65 and Hwy 210.

PEREGRINE FALCONS nested this year on both of the high bridges over the St.
Louis River and atop the Greysolon Plaza Building.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, July 3rd;
however, if there is little to report, the tape may not be updated for a
couple of weeks.

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
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