[mou] Duluth Great-tailed Grackle Directions

[Dan Amerman]

Apparently my directions for the Great-tailed Grackle
in West Duluth needed to be more precise.  Go down
Grand Avenue all the way to Gary – New Duluth.  Just
before Boy Scout Landing take a left on Highway 39, as
if you were following the signs to cross the bridge to
Wisconsin.  The road will go downhill, cross a
railroad tracks, then climb to the bridge – but
instead, at the bottom of the hill take a left into
the small dirt parking area, just past the tracks,
that is beneath a train trestle.  Go to the railroad
tracks and walk north (to the right).  Mud Lake is
ahead of you, and the railroad crosses it on a
causeway, but you don’t need to go that far.

On the tracks, about 30-50 yards before the lake, look
to your right (east, towards Wisconsin), and there is
a medium height dead tree something like 30-50 yards
away from the railroad tracks.   The Great-tailed
Grackle was perched high there this morning, and there
were a bunch of Mourning Doves hanging around in the
vicinity as well.  For comparison, on the west side of
the tracks along the near edge of Mud Lake there were
ten or so Common Grackles (also a family of six River
Otters at about 5:30 this morning!).  Hopefully the
bird will hang around in the vicinity for a while.

Dan Amerman
Duluth, MN


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com