[mou] Iceland Gull and Cattle Egret - Beaver Bay, Lake Co.

[Jim Lind]

Deb Falkowski left a message on the Duluth RBA that she and her 
husband Steve found a pale first-winter Iceland Gull on the dock at 
the end of Fish House Road in East Beaver Bay this morning.  This is 
a steep, narrow, dead end road about a half mile east of County Road 
4.  Gulls often congregate either on the dock or the island just 
offshore.

The Falkowskis also found a Cattle Egret at the Beaver Bay sewage 
ponds, about 3/4 of a mile up County Road 4 from Highway 61.  I also 
have a reliable report of a Cattle Egret that was seen last Thursday 
on private property off the Korkki Road in St. Louis County.  These 
sightings, along with today's sighting in Knife River and the 
sighting in Grand Marais a week ago, seem to indicate a notable 
movement along the North Shore (or one very active bird).

Jim Lind