[mou] Duluth RBA 8/11/05

[Jim Lind]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, August 11th, 
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Two immature MISSISSIPPI KITES were seen by Frank Nicoletti on the 
afternoon of August 8th at 15th Avenue East on London Road in Duluth. 
 This coincided with a report of another individual on the same day 
in the Twin Cities.  Neither of the birds have since been relocated.

Passerine migration along the North Shore has picked up recently, 
with a high diversity of warblers banded at Hawk Ridge in the past 
two weeks.  Dave Grosshuesch has banded more than 725 birds since 
August 2nd including nearly 300 NASHVILLE WARBLERS, which is a record 
for this early in the season. Today Dave banded 17 species of 
warbler, including GOLDEN-WINGED, BLACKBURNIAN, BAY-BREASTED, 
CONNECTICUT, MOURNING, and CANADA WARBLER.  

Jim Barrett reported eight species of warbler in west Duluth's Morgan 
Park in a short period of time on the 10th, including a GOLDEN-WINGED 
x BLUE-WINGED hybrid BREWSTER'S WARBLER.  Jim also had an EVENING 
GROSBEAK at his feeders at 86th Avenue West from August 7th to the 
9th.  Mike Steffes reported two BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS still 
singing on Moose Mountain in Cook County on the 6th.

Janet Riegle and Billie Anderson found nine BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS 
on the ball fields at the Park Point recreation area on August 6th.  
They also reported SEMIPALMATED, LEAST, and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS on the 
bayside of the point.

A juvenile BONAPARTE'S GULL was seen on Lake Superior out from Silver 
Creek in Lake County on the 5th.  Small groups of GREAT BLUE HERONS 
have been seen migrating down the North Shore during the past week.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, August 
18th.

The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858.  
Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded 
message.

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