[mou] Duluth RBA 5/22/03

[David R. Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 22, 2003, sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A first-winter-plumage LITTLE GULL was seen on Sunday in the harbor off the
soccer field at Park Point.

23 WHIMBRELS were seen on Monday, and and at least 6 were still present
today in the vicinity of Hearding Island in Duluth. Other shorebirds seen
this week include BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER,
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET, RUDDY TURNSTONE,
SANDERLING, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and DUNLIN. Most of
these sightings were on Minnesota Point.

Over 200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 150 COMMON TERNS, and 1 TRUMPETER SWAN have
been seen at Hearding Island this week.

On May 17, 10 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS were found on Moose Mountain in
Cook Cty.

Thanks to Barb Adams, Lars Benson, Kim Eckert, Dave Krikorian, Chris
Mansfield, Gordy Martinson, Mike Steffes, and Sparky Stensaas for
contributing information to this report.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 29.

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.