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-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *October 20, 2001 *MNDL0110.20 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: October 20, 2001
Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours)
Compiler: Betsy Beneke (BetsyBeneke@lakesnet.net)
This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, October 19th, sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Lakes Area Birding Club. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888.
Several thousand SANDHILL CRANES were still present on the Glacial Ridge project in Polk County on the 17th. For best viewing, take CR 45 west from State Hwy. 32 at Dugdale.
Mary and Bill Wyatt had a male BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER land in a rasperry bush about 5 feet outside the window of their rural Detroit Lakes home in Becker County on the 19th.
Stan Wood, while doing aerial surveys in Roseau County on the 16th, noted good numbers of GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the Roseau River and Roseau Lake WMA's. He also saw the first flock of SNOW BUNTINGS.
Kay Hartness had a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in her yard at Cotton Lake, Becker Co. on the 11th.
The season's first NORTHERN SHRIKE was found on the 13th by folks on a Fargo-Moorhead Audubon field trip to Clay and Wilkin Counties. They also reported seeing quite a number of LE CONTE'S SPARROW. Shelley Steva and Betsy Beneke found LE CONTE'S SPARROWS near Bisson Lake at the Hamden Slough NWR in Becker County and at several locations in Mahnomen County that same date. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen in Mahnomen County that day also.
Doug Johnson reported the season's first BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS on the 15th near Bemidji in Beltrami County.
Two SHORT-EARED OWLS were found just NW of the Hamden Slough NWR in Becker County on the 13th.
At Tamarac NWR on the 14th, 44 TRUMPETER SWANS and 14 BALD EAGLES were on Blackbird Lake. The first RED CROSSBILLS, a small group of 7 birds, were present, and the RING-NECKED DUCK population had risen to a season high of 11, 300.
Dorothy Russell found KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER at the Crookston Sewage Ponds in Polk Co. on the 16th.
Other birds reported in good numbers this week included PIED-BILLED GREBE, CANADA GOOSE, MALLARD, BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN PIPIT, AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, HARRIS'S SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.
