[mou] North Shore T. Solitaire, Red-bellied Woodpecker, etc.

[Jim Lind]

Yesterday Sharon and I birded the North Shore from Two Harbors to 
Grand Marais with Dave and Sarah Grosshuesch.  We found a Red-bellied 
Woodpecker on the west side of Beaver Bay, in the small neighborhood 
south of Highway 61.  It was near the junction of Slater Drive and 
Ruth Street.  There was also a pair of Northern Cardinals and four 
American Robins here.

We found a Townsend's Solitaire in Schoeder along Highway 61, at the 
road to the Father Baragas Cross.  We could not find either of the 
two solitaires at the Tofte Town Park, but we did have a flock of 
about 30 Bohemian Waxwings fly over.

In Grand Marais there was a flock of at least 125 Bohemain Waxwings 
and about 25 Cedar Waxwings along 8th Avenue, a block up from Highway 
61.  We found a pair of Northern Cardinals near 10th Avenue and 2nd 
Street.  We didn't see any Harlequins in the harbor, and only saw a 
couple dozen Herring Gulls.  The lake was extremely rough with 20+ 
mph southeast winds.

The mountain ash crop is pretty amazing up there.  We saw small 
groups of Pine Grosbeaks all along Highway 61 between Beaver Bay and 
Grand Marais.

Jim Lind
Two Harbors