[mou] Grand Marais Grasshopper Sparrow, etc.

[David Benson]

Late this morning, on one of the Fall Migration Birding Festival Trips, 
Steve and Cindy Broste spotted a bird that turned out to be a 
Grasshopper Sparrow in Grand Marais. The bird was moving between the 
little grass island in front of the Super America and the lawn of the 
Mangy Moose Motel, back-and-forth across Hwy 61 east of the stoplight.

A Black-backed Woodpecker and an American Three-toed Woopecker were in 
the large spruce immediately trees behind the office of the North House 
Folk School in Grand Marais this morning.

The Croftville Townsends' Solitaire, reported yesterday by Dedrick 
Benz, was seen again today.

At dusk today, two female American Three-toed Woodpeckers and a female 
Black-backed Woodpecker were all in the same tree on the lakewalk in 
Two Harbors, right at the point where the trail turns away from the 
lake, heads past the quarry and runs downhill back to the parking lot.

No doubt, quite a few other woodpeckers were seen along the shore by 
others today.

Dave Benson
Duluth