[mou] Duluth RBA 11/10/05

[Jim Lind]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, November 10th, 
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A second-winter CALIFORNIA GULL was found by Mike Hendrickson and Tom 
Auer on Novemeber 5th on the Minnesota breakwall at the Superior 
Entry.  It has not been relocated since.  Mike and Tom also found two 
GLAUCOUS GULLS, and a first-winter THAYER'S GULL in the area.  An 
adult THAYER'S GULL was seen by Kim Eckert in the Grand Marais harbor 
over the weekend. Deb and Steve Falkowski found a first-winter 
ICELAND GULL on the 7th on the dock at the end of Fish House Road in 
East Beaver Bay, about a half mile east of Lake County Road 4.  The 
bird was also relocated on the 8th.  

Deb and Steve also found a CATTLE EGRET at the Beaver Bay sewage 
ponds on the 7th, and Doug Keiser and Scott Meyer found two here on 
the 8th.  Another CATTLE EGRET was seen in Knife River along Central 
Avenue on the 7th and 8th, and one was found by Ann Cox on the 4th 
through the 8th on private property off the Korkki Road, northeast of 
Duluth.  Today, Ann saw what may be the same individual along the 
Homestead Road at the junction of the Shilhon Road, about 1.7 miles 
north of Highway 61.  

A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER was found on the 5th by Chuck Krulas in 
downtown Two Harbors near 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.  Another was 
found in Jacobson in Aitkin County on the 5th and 6th by John Powers.

Bill Tefft found a female MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD on the 7th on the fence 
line near the airport entrance in Tower, St. Louis County.  There is 
a secondhand report of a VARIED THRUSH being seen during the past 
week near Crane Lake in northern St. Louis County.

Mike Hendrickson and Tom Auer found SURF SCOTERS, WHITE-WINGED 
SCOTERS, and BLACK SCOTERS at Park Point on the 4th.  Al and Nathan 
Schirmacher found SURF SCOTER and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS in Two Harbors 
on the 6th, as well as a THAYER'S GULL at Knife River.  A BLACK 
SCOTER was also seen at Burlington Bay in Two Harbors over the 
weekend.  LONG-TAILED DUCKS were seen over the weekend at Stoney 
Point in St. Louis County and at the mouth of the Cascade River in 
Cook County.

The PACIFIC LOON originally found by Mike Hendrickson at Park Point 
at 31st Street was relocated on the 6th.  The PACIFIC LOON at 
Burlington Bay in Two Harbors was relocated on the 5th.  An AMERICAN 
WHITE PELICAN was seen on the 6th by Charlie Matsch at Grassy Point 
in west Duluth.

A female BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was still being seen as of the 5th 
along the pine woods trail at Hawk Ridge.  Seventeen GOLDEN EAGLES 
were counted at the Ridge between the 6th and the 9th.  Jan Green 
reported one today migrating with several BALD EAGLES near the corner 
of the Berquist Road and the Shilhon Road.

A late PHILADELPHIA VIREO was found on the 6th by Kim Eckert at the 
Naniboujou Lodge in Cook County.  A late ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was 
seen by Doug Keiser and Scott Meyer at Paradise Beach on the 7th.  
Doug and Scott also reported five BOREAL CHICKADEES on the Lima 
Mountain Road in Cook County, and several flocks of EVENING GROSBEAKS 
at feeders in the Isabella area.  In the Sax-Zim Bog on the 8th they 
found a GREAT GRAY OWL along Owl Avenue (CR 203), 0.8 mile south of 
the Arkola Road (CR 52).  

Another GREAT GRAY OWL was found on the 8th by Cathy Nelson along the 
Jean-Duluth Road near the Beyer Road.  Bill Tefft reported a NORTHERN 
HAWK OWL at the south end of the Admiral Road (CR 788) near Zim on 
the 6th, and Rick Schroeder reported one on the 7th along County Road 
7, just south of the Stone Lake Road (CR 319).

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, 
November 17th.

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.