[mou] Duluth RBA 4/20/06

[Jim Lind]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, April 20th, 2006 
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported by Norma Malinowski on the 
14th at the Embarrass rice paddies in east-central St. Louis County.  
This area of large impoundments is east of the Embarrass River and 
can be reached from the Waisenen Road (CR 362) south of Embarrass.

Jason Caddy found a female BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER today along the 
Lake Nichols Road, two miles east of CR 7.  He also found seven SHARP-
TAILED GROUSE and two BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES along CR 29, just north of 
Meadowlands.

Sixty AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were counted at the West Skyline Hawk 
Count in Duluth between the 14th and the 16th.  Peder Svingen found 
one on the 15th at Interstate Island in Duluth, and Sue McDonnell saw 
two flying along Highway 61 in Lake County today near Palisade Creek. 
 Sue also had her first CHIPPING SPARROW in her Cook County yard on 
the 14th.

Carol and Jim Tveekrem found a male PINE WARBLER today in their yard 
in Schroeder, Cook County.  Mike Hendrickson found a PALM WARBLER on 
Park Point in Duluth on the 19th.

An adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen on the 15th at the West Skyline 
Hawk Count, and the first BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were seen on the 16th.

Other recent spring arrivals in the area include BREWER'S BLACKBIRD 
on the 19th, SWAMP SPARROW on the 17th, COMMON SNIPE on the 16th and 
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD on the 14th.

Kim Risen saw a late-lingering SNOWY OWL in Aitkin County on the 
14th, south of Palisade. Small numbers of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen 
in the Lakeside neighborhood over the weekend, and in Two Harbors on 
the 18th.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, April 
27th.

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.