[mou] Duluth RBA 5/13/04

[David Benson]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 13, 2004, sponsored 
by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Spring migrants have been pouring into Northeastern Minnesota all week, 
resulting in too many reports to mention individually.

Audrey Evers reported a PAINTED BUNTING from Kent Road in Hoyt Lakes 
today. Mike Hendrickson reported 9 RED-THROATED LOONS today on Lake 
Superior near the airport. Dory Spence reported a SAGE THRASHER from 
Schroeder on the 11th, and Jan Green saw a CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR 
at the junction of the Homestead Rd and Old North Shore Drive on the 
7th.

Sparky Stensaas found a WILSON'S PLOVER on Sunday at Wisconsin Point. 
Unfortunately, the bird was not found later that day. The PIPING PLOVER 
found there on Sunday stayed until Monday. A breeding-plumage SNOW 
BUNTING has been on the beach at Wisconsin Point all week, and one 
WILLET was there on the 10th.

BONAPARTE'S GULLS arrived on the 7th, and COMMON TERNS on the 8th. The 
number of terns has continued to build all week. Mike Hendrickson and 
Peder Svingen counted 1500 on the evening of the 12th. There were 
several sightings of BLACK TERNS in the past couple of days.

Warren Nelson heard YELLOW RAILS, SORAS, and LeCONTE'S SPARROWS at 
McGregor Marsh on the 6th. Jim Lind found three SHORT-BILLED 
DOWITCHERS, plus five other species of shorebirds on the 13th at the 
Beaver Bay sewage ponds. He also found an AMERICAN AVOCET at Flood Bay 
on the 10th, a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the same location, and another 
Mockingbird at Iona's Beach on the 13th.

There seem to be sparrows everywhere this week. There have been several 
reports of HARRIS' SPARROWS. There was a VESPER SPARROW at Park Point 
on the 11th, and today there were two singing LeCONTE'S SPARROWS at 
40th. In all, 16 species from the sparrow family were reported.

Twenty species of warblers were reported this week, including 
BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS, seen by Harry Hutchins in Grand Rapids and Josh 
Watson in Grand Marais. The only regular species not yet seen are 
Golden-winged, Black-throated Blue, Connecticut, Wilson's, and Canada.

 From a long list of new migrants this week, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and 
BALTIMORE ORIOLE were first reported on the 8th; RUBY-THROATED 
HUMMINGBIRD on the 9th; PURPLE MARTIN, SCARLET TANAGER, and 
PHILADELPHIA VIREO on the 12th.

Thanks to everyone who reported birds this week.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 20.

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 to mou@cbs.umn.edu, or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.

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