[mou] Duluth RBA 9/6/07

[Jim Lind]

-RBA
*Minnesota
*Duluth/North Shore
*September 6, 2007
*MNDU0709.06

-Birds mentioned
American White Pelican
Whimbrel
Red Knot
Parasitic Jaeger
Whip-poor-will
Black-backed Woodpecker
Red-breasted Nuthatch
American Pipit
Black-throated Blue Warbler
-Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: September 6, 2007
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind at frontiernet.net)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, September 6th, 2007
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A dark morph PARASITIC JAEGER was found by Dave Benson on the evening of
the 4th close to shore at the south end of the Park Point recreation
area. Earlier in the day, Skye Haas and others saw a distant
unidentified jaeger that they thought was a different individual. Two
WHIMBRELS continue to be seen at the Park Point soccer fields. Peder
Svingen found 21 warbler species on the 5th and 16 species on the 4th
between Southworth Marsh and the recreation area. John Ellis relocated a
RED KNOT on the 3rd at Interstate Island.

Jan and John Green found a female BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER on the 2nd
along the Maple Woods Trail at Hawk Ridge. A large group of
WHIP-POOR-WILLS were seen at dusk on the 1st at the banding station, and
another was banded a few days earlier. A big flight of 176 RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES was seen from the overlook on the 31st, along with the
season's first AMERICAN PIPIT report. Nineteen AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS
were seen on the 4th from the overlook, and 17 were seen on the 2nd. A
flock of 24 was also seen in Lake County at Castle Danger on the evening
of the 2nd.

Terry Wiens reported a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER on the 3rd in Gnesen
Township north of Duluth. Terry and Sharon Frank reported two on August
30th east of Lake County Road 3 near the junction of the East Alger
Grade.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, September
13th. 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, e-mail us
at mou at moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.
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