Minnesota Detroit Lakes RBA
Minnesota Detroit Lakes RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *August 9, 2007 *MNDL0708.09-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: August 9, 2007
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)
This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, August 9, 2007 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.
With the hot dry weather lately the northwest is looking more and more like fall. The wheat is ripening, sunflowers are golden yellow, and the native bluestem is turning a lovely dark red color. Many prairie species are in full bloom now and prairies are quite beautiful. Signs of fall are the many flocks of swallows, and other species with their young, gathering to learn the ways of their kind.
A shorebird survey at Agassiz NWR on August 3 tallied 2650 individuals of 18 species including a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS and 5 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES at Tamarac Pool. In the dry weather, habitat is shrinking, but there was still enough to entice hundreds of birds to stop there. On August 9, a little rain recently received has improved the conditions somewhat and many shorebirds are feeding there still including at least one WILLET. Also in Marshall County on August 9 were about 200 SANDHILL CRANES in a field along the west side of the refuge. Numbers of GREAT BLUE HERONS have arrived also, and food is plentiful as evidenced by the hundreds of little frogs seen along the refuge roads. Several family groups of AMERICAN KESTRELS were along the roads on the west side of the refuge, and a GREAT HORNED OWL was seen.
In Polk County, Danielle Olson included a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH in her report from Rydell NWR this week. On August 5, a trip to Glacial Ridge NWR revealed that bird song has all but disappeared for the season, but the plink of BOBOLINKS could still be heard in the grasses.
Pat Beauzay found four BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS at Hamden Slough NWR along CR 104 a mile NW of the headquarters on August 3.
In Hubbard County , at Park Rapids, Pat reported a RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD ON August 3.
Thanks to Danielle Olson and Pat Beauzay 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. The next scheduled update of this report is Thursday, August 16, 2007.
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