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-Birds mentioned

• Trumpeter Swan
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Spruce Grouse
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Great Gray Owl
• Three-toed Woodpecker
• Alder Flycatcher
• Willow Flycatcher
• Brown Creeper
• Rock Wren
• Hermit Thrush
• Brown Thrasher
• White-eyed Vireo
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Connecticut Warbler
• Mourning Warbler
• Scarlet Tanager
• Field Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Purple Finch

Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: June 10, 2004
Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours)
Compiler: Jeanie Joppru (ajjoppru@wiktel.com)
id 13233-09 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:17:46 -0500 (CDT)

This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, June 11, 2004 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888.

A few warm days this week moved the migration north, and now we are getting reports of the summer nesting birds. Wet conditions now are prevalent over the northern part of the state, and many wetlands are too wet for shorebirds. Gary Tischer from Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge reported that the Auto Tour Route is now reopened, and the office will be staffed on Sunday afternoon as usual this week.

Peder Svingen was at Felton Prairie in Clay County on Sunday, and he reported that the ROCK WREN was still singing at the top of rock pile # 6006, the location where it was first spotted. Directions to the wren are: From state highway 9, take Clay County Road 108 east. It will become a gravel road in about three miles and at the 'T' go north. The road will soon go east, and after a quarter of a mile look for the gravel pit. The bird was singing on top of a rock pile labeled # 6006. Joe Gartner was banding birds at the Buffalo River Bird Monitoring station on Saturday June 5th. Among the species banded was a WHITE-EYED VIREO. Other species banded included BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, BROWN THRASHER, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW and SCARLET TANAGER. Mel and Elaine Bennefeld sighted a partial albino house sparrow at the Ponderosa Golf Club in Clay County on June 4th.=20

>From Rydell NWR in Polk County, Alex Wendorf reported sightings for this week of BROWN CREEPER, sixteen species of warblers, eight species of sparrows including both WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, and many other locally nesting birds.

At Agassiz NWR in Marshall County, Gary Tischer noted that there is a new brood of TRUMPETER SWANS this week. It is suspected that these are the birds that nested there for the first time last year.

A report from Martin Kehoe received late this week included a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER seen in a remote part of the Beltrami Island State Forest in Lake of the Woods County on May 21st. SPRUCE GROUSE were seen daily in the forest over the last month. A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on June 5th, also in a more remote part of the state forest. On June 6th, Zeann Linder and I saw a singing male GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER along the Faunce-Butterfield Road about a half mile east of seven-mile corner or 7 miles west of Norris Camp. Other species seen that day included BROAD-WINGED HAWK, ALDER FLYCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, and PURPLE FINCH.

In Beltrami County, a nice assortment of warblers was found on June 6th including NASHVILLE WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, and MOURNING WARBLER.

Thanks to Mel and Elaine Bennefeld, Gary Tischer, Martin Kehoe, Joe Gartner, Alex Wendorf, and Peder Svingen for their reports.

Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, June 18, 2004.

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