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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *June 13, 2002 *MNDU0206.13 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: June 13, 2002
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
Transcriber: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for June 13, 2002, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
A SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER was reported today from near the intersection of North Tischer and Strand Roads in Duluth. The bird was seen around 3:00 pm for an hour. It wasn't seen after that time.
The PAINTED BUNTING seen last week in northern St. Louis County did not reappear this week.
Kim Eckert found a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER in northern Lake County on the 8th. It was on the Spruce Road, a tenth of a mile north of the jct. with Endless Waters Road. BOREAL CHICKADEES were seen this week at two locations on the Spruce Road-four-tenths of a mile north of Endless Waters Rd, and at the snowmobile trail 3.5 miles north of Hwy 1.
SPRUCE GROUSE were found on the 12th off Lake Cty Rd 2, north of the jct. with the Sand River, on the second road to the west. This is NOT the road posted "no tresspassing." Several CONNECTICUT WARBLERS have been heard in this area this week.
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS were found in a burn along the south side of Hwy 1 in Lake Cty, 9 miles east of the jct. with Cty Rd 2.
The best spot for GREAT GRAY OWLS this week has been in the Sax-Zim area, near the jct. of Cty Rds 52 and 207, also known as Arkola and Stickney Roads.
Karen Sussman found BLACK TERNS and WILSON'S PHALAROPES at the Embarrass Rice Paddies this week.
The spring migration continues, with reports this week of non-territorial YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS, BOBOLINK, DARK-EYED JUNCO, and several shorebirds, including SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, PIPING PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and several reports of WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, June 20.
The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape.
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.
