[mou] Duluth RBA 5/8/08

[Jim Lind]

-RBA
*Minnesota
*Duluth/North Shore
*May 8, 2008
*MNDU0805.08

-Birds mentioned
Black Scoter
Red-throated Loon
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Yellow Rail
Piping Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Thayer's Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Short-eared Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Mockingbird
Ovenbird
Eastern Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red Crossbill
-Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: May 8, 2008
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind at frontiernet.net)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 8th, 2008 sponsored
by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A PIPING PLOVER was found on the 4th by Peder Svingen at 22nd Street on
Park Point, and two were seen by Shawn Zierman at the same location on
the 8th. Twenty RED-THROATED LOONS were found by Peder and Kim Eckert on
the 6th off Park Point between the recreation area and Lafayette Square.
Peder also found an adult LITTLE GULL on the 6th at 22nd Street on Park
Point, along with more than 4,100 BONAPARTE'S GULLS.

On the 4th, Peder saw a female BLACK SCOTER between Interstate Island
and 27th Avenue West, a second cycle GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL on
Interstate Island, and a first cycle THAYER'S GULL at Lafayette Square
on Park Point. WILLETS were seen during the week on Park Point at the
recreation area and between 12th Street and 22nd Street. Frank Berdan
found a flock of six on the 3rd along Scenic Highway 61, 0.25 mile
southwest of the McQuade Road. Uwe Kausch reported an EARED GREBE on the
7th along MN Highway 61 at the Lester River in east Duluth.

Kim Eckert found an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER on the 8th near the
UMD campus on the 1900 block of West Kent Road. Dave Grosshuesch found a
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on the 4th at 57th Avenue East and Juniata Street
in Duluth, and it was still present on the 6th. A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
was seen at the same location on the 6th. Sharon Lind found an EASTERN
TOWHEE on the 4th on the 300 block of 2nd Avenue in downtown Two
Harbors. Another was seen on the 6th at Leif Erickson Park in Duluth.

Kim Eckert heard two YELLOW RAILS on the 5th in Aitkin County at the
McGregor Marsh. They were on the east side of MN Highway 65, 0.7 mile
south of MN Highway 210. Warren Nelson found a SHORT-EARED OWL on the
3rd near the junction of CR 1 and CR 22, about three miles north of
Aitkin. Denny and Barb Martin found RED CROSSBILLS on the 5th at the
Cloquet Forestry Center along Carlton County Road 5. Sparky Stensaas saw
40 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS on the 2nd at Perch Lake in the Fond du Lac
neighborhood of west Duluth.

A GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW was found on April 28th at a private residence
near Lutsen in Cook County and was still present on May 3rd. There is no
public access to the location, but I will post if the situation changes.

Recent new arrivals in the area include LE CONTE'S SPARROW on the 3rd,
FORSTER’S TERN and CASPIAN TERN on the 4th, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING,
and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on the 6th, SPOTTED SANDPIPER on the 7th, and
OVENBIRD and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK on the 8th.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 15th.

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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