[mou] Duluth RBA 1/29/04

[David Benson]

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This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, January 29, 2004, 
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Jeanette Lang reported a SPOTTED TOWHEE in Duluth this week. The bird 
moves around the neighborhood along the alley in the 2300 block east, 
between 2nd and 3rd streets. Jeanette saw it on Saturday and Sunday, 
but apparently neighbors have seen the bird for several weeks.

A VARIED THRUSH has been seen in the town of Palisade in Aitkin Cty. 
 From the gas station on the north side of main street, head north on 
4th. At the end of this street, bear left. Eventually this road bends 
right. At the bend there is a white house with two fake human figures 
on the porch. The bird is coming to feeders at this house. John 
Richardson found it there on the 22nd, and Herb Dingmann saw it again 
on the 24th.

Tom Auer saw the GYRFALCON on the 23rd at 2:15 pm. It was perched on 
the Peavey Elevators in Superior. Tom also saw a SNOWY OWL perched on 
the river ice beneath the Bong Bridge. Jim Lind refound the 
first-winter ICELAND GULL at Agate Bay in Two Harbors on the 24th. The 
GLAUCOUS GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, and LONG-TAILED DUCK were also still 
present.

Several observers saw GREAT GRAY OWLS along Cty Rd 18 in Aitkin Cty 
this week. Warren Nelson found three on the 24th, two wer a half mile 
west of Pietz's Rd, and the other was 0.2 mile east of the Hebron 
Cemetery.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Wednesday, February 
4th.

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.

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This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, January 29, 2004,
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.


Jeanette Lang reported a SPOTTED TOWHEE in Duluth this week. The bird
moves around the neighborhood along the alley in the 2300 block east,
between 2nd and 3rd streets. Jeanette saw it on Saturday and Sunday,
but apparently neighbors have seen the bird for several weeks.


A VARIED THRUSH has been seen in the town of Palisade in Aitkin Cty.
>From the gas station on the north side of main street, head north on
4th. At the end of this street, bear left. Eventually this road bends
right. At the bend there is a white house with two fake human figures
on the porch. The bird is coming to feeders at this house. John
Richardson found it there on the 22nd, and Herb Dingmann saw it again
on the 24th.


Tom Auer saw the GYRFALCON on the 23rd at 2:15 pm. It was perched on
the Peavey Elevators in Superior. Tom also saw a SNOWY OWL perched on
the river ice beneath the Bong Bridge. Jim Lind refound the
first-winter ICELAND GULL at Agate Bay in Two Harbors on the 24th. The
GLAUCOUS GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, and LONG-TAILED DUCK were also still
present.


Several observers saw GREAT GRAY OWLS along Cty Rd 18 in Aitkin Cty
this week. Warren Nelson found three on the 24th, two wer a half mile
west of Pietz's Rd, and the other was 0.2 mile east of the Hebron
Cemetery.


The next scheduled update of this report will be on Wednesday,
February 4th.


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.<bold>

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