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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *November 1, 2001 *MNDU0111.01 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: November 1, 2001
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, November 1, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
With a long list of significant sightings last weekend in N E Minnesota, there was an update of this Report last Sunday. Unfortunately, since the weekend hardly anything new has been reported, with the only birds of interest being a PACIFIC LOON relocated near Canal Park in Duluth Oct 29, and a late GREATER YELLOWLEGS seen the same day in Aitkin Co. This Pacific Loon is presumably the same individual seen off and on earlier in October at Park Point, usually on the bay side near 43rd St.
To repeat the highlights from the previous Birding Report about the birds seen last weekend, Oct 26-28:
Both RED-THROATED LOON and PACIFIC LOON were reported in the vicinity of Five Mile Rock E of Grand Marais, with the Red-throated seen by many observers on more than one day.
Three HARLEQUIN DUCKS, an adult male and 2 females or imm males, were found on the lake Saturday morning out from 90th Ave East in Duluth, and several minutes later they were about 3/4 mile to the southwest near the Duluth Tent & Trailer Campground. However, no one has apparently been able to relocate them since then.
On Sunday an imm gray-morph GYRFALCON was at Hawk Ridge in Duluth, and on Friday the 26th the raptor count was over 2,100, including 26 GOLDEN EAGLES (apparently a one-day record count here), 148 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS, 1,842 RED-TAILED HAWKS and 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS. (Overall, earlier in October and in most of September, the raptor totals have been generally disappointing, which is why there has been little Hawk Ridge news on this Birding Report this fall.)
Both a first-winter ICELAND GULL and a first-winter THAYER'S GULL were in the Grand Marais harbor; note that this Iceland Gull is a darker individual than the one found in Grand Marais 3 weeks ago.
A SNOWY OWL was found at the North Shore Mining property in Silver Bay on Oct 25.
Two NORTHERN HAWK OWLS were seen: one was relocated about 3 mi up the Lima Grade Rd, which turns N off the end of the Lima Mountain Rd off the Gunflint Trail in Cook Co. The other was a new individual seen on Lake Co Rd 2, about 2 mi N of the White Pines Wayside.
That WHITE-EYED VIREO found Oct 25 at Lutsen Sea Villas, along Hwy 61 between Tofte and Lutsen in Cook Co, was still present on Sunday the 28th. Most of the sightings have been in the spruce trees next to the main guest registration building.
A CAROLINA WREN was seen Saturday at Molly and Ken Hoffman's yard near Grand Marais; this individual has apparently been in this area off and on since August.
No fewer than 4 TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES were found: along Skiff Landing Rd E of Emily's General Store in Knife River, near the corner of 1st St and 2nd Ave in Two Harbors, at the Lutsen Sea Villas, and near the E end of the Croftville Rd just E of Grand Marais. None of these have apparently been relocated since the weekend.
At least 1 HOARY REDPOLL among several COMMON REDPOLLS was at the Lutsen Sea Villas; Hoarys were also found in the Grand Marais vicinity.
Finally, the unconfirmed Western Tanager report in Knife River was most likely the result of a misidentification and should be disregarded.
Unless something unusual is seen in the meantime which needs to be reported immediately, this Report is normally updated once a week on Thursdays, so that the next scheduled update will be on November 8. The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 525-5952, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. Messages can also be left without having to wait for the report to end: to do this, after the tape starts playing push 5, the tape will stop, the tone will sound, and you can then leave your 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 of Natural History, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to mou@biosci.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.
