[mou] Duluth RBA 4/13/06

[Jim Lind]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, April 13th, 2006 
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A ROSS=92S GOOSE was found by Deb Buria-Falkowski on the 7th at Silver 
Lake in Virginia.  Peder Svingen counted 196 RED-NECKED GREBES on the 
9th on Lake Superior out from Park Point in Duluth.

Sarah Grosshuesch reported a record-early EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE today in 
Duluth at 22nd Avenue East and 5th Street.  Other recent spring 
arrivals in the area include WINTER WREN today, OSPREY and YELLOW-
RUMPED WARBLER on the 11th, FOX SPARROW on the 10th, NORTHERN 
FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE and HERMIT THRUSH on the 9th, and YELLOW-
BELLIED SAPSUCKER on the 6th.

Thanks to Jan Green, Deb Buria-Falkowski, Peder Svingen, Uwe Kausch, 
Dave and Sarah Grosshuesch, Frank Nicoletti, and Jason Caddy for 
their reports.

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

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.