[mou] Duluth RBA 3/5/03

[David R. Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, March 6, 2003, sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS have returned to Duluth in numbers. Gordy Martinson has
had a consistent flock at Oak and Maxwell in Lakewood Township, Mike
Hendrickson has seen several flocks in West Duluth, and today I saw a flock
of about 300 birds near Ordean School in East Duluth.

An adult, gray GYRFALCON was seen on Feb 28 and again on March 1st in the
Port Terminal area in the Duluth harbor.

Last weekend, Chris Benson reported 17 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE  dancing and
displaying on CR 29, 1/2 mile north of the Dart Rd  in the Sax-Zim area. He
also reported a GREAT GRAY OWL on Cty Rd 52, 2.6 miles east of Cty Rd  7.
In Lake Cty, he saw two SPRUCE GROUSE on Hwy 1 near mile marker 297.

Leif Brush has RUFFED GROUSE coming to his feeder at 29th and Jefferson in
Duluth.

The next MOU field trip will be April 12-13 to Rock Cty in southwestern
Minnesota. The trip will meet at 7:00 am on the 12th at the Country Kitchen
in Luverne. For more information, contact Mike Hendrickson at
smithville4@msn.com.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, March 13.

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.