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*July 12, 2012
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• Northern Shoveler
• Ruddy Duck
• Common Loon
• Red-necked Grebe
• Least Bittern
• Green Heron
• Merlin
• Yellow Rail
• Willet
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Black Tern
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Sedge Wren
• Marsh Wren
• Savannah Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Henslow's Sparrow
• Le Conte's Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• Dickcissel
• Evening Grosbeak

Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: July 12, 2012
Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours)
Compiler: Jeanie Joppru (ajjoppru@q.com)

This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, July 12, 2012 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. There were few reports last week due to the holiday and the very hot weather. The heat has continued, but several hearty souls were out any way looking for DICKCISSELS. For you county listers, here is a small list of DICKCISSELS that were found. In Itasca County on July 7, a DICKCISSEL was found along CR B north of MN 169; in Koochiching County one was at the intersection of CR6 and CR17 northeast of Northome; Kittson County birds were along 320th Ave two miles east of US 59 on CR 51, otherwise known as the Tombstone Highway. In Pennington County one bird was seen 3.2 miles west of MN 32 on 140th St SW which is the Red Lake /Pennington County line. In Roseau County, one bird was seen 2.4 miles north of MN11 on CR 28 at the first intersection north of the Roseau Wastewater Treatment Ponds. All of the above were found by Dennis and Barb Martin this week. Gretchen Mehmel and Beth Siverhus found 6 male WILSON'S PHALAROPES on Brown's Lake in Lake of the Woods County on June 29. Other species seen there included RED-NECKED GREBE, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, BLACK TERN, and LE CONTE'S SPARROW. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen on the Faunce Road. In Roseau County , Beth Siverhus saw two EVENING GROSBEAKS at her feeder in Warroad on July 10. At Warroad Estates north of Warroad, there was a pair of GREEN HERONS and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. In Marshall County, at Agassiz NWR, Gregg Knutsen and Craig Mowry found a COMMON LOON at Farmes Pool on June 28. On July 2, Gregg saw a GREEN HERON on Agassiz Pool, and on the 5th, he saw a MERLIN just outside the west boundary at CR 7. The first sightings of duck broods of scaup, NORTHERN SHOVELER, and RUDDY DUCKS were seen on the refuge. Bill Blackburn and also Dennis and Barb Martin reported LEAST BITTERNS and BLACK TERNS in a small wetland at the Red Lake- Pennington County line just east of CR 10, otherwise known as the Pembina Trail. Randy Frederickson found 3 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in Halstad, Norman County, on July 9 at the main intersection in town. On July 8, I saw the HENSLOW'S SPARROW previously reported at Dalby WMA exactly where he reported it earlier- seven miles east of Borup on CR 39, then north 2 miles to the intersection of 330th St and 140th Ave, and east 0.3 miles. The bird was on the north side of the road. Steve Midthune reported from Hamden Slough in Becker County where he reported many shorebirds at the headquarters pond including both yellowlegs, dowitcher species, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and WILLETS. At Bisson Lake there was a non-breeding BONAPARTE'S GULL. Dennis and Barb Martin found YELLOW RAILS at Hellickson Prairie in Becker County south of the Waubun Marsh. Gary and Marion Otnes did some birding in Western Township in Otter Tail County on July 10 where they found 4 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, DICKCISSELS, SEDGE WRENS, MARSH WRENS, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, and SWAMP SPARROWS. Thanks to Beth Siverhus, Bill Blackburn, Barb and Dennis Martin, Gary and Marion Otnes, Gretchen Mehmel, Randy Frederickson, and Steve Midthune for their reports. Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@mncable.net 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, July 19, 2012.

Jeanie Joppru Pennington County, MN

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