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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *June 20, 2002 *MNDU0206.20 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: June 20, 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 Thursday, June 20, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS have been seen at many locations across northeastern Minnesota over the past ten days. A nest was seen at St. Croix State Park near the All-seasons Trail Center. Look for signs reading T7 and T8 near the parking lot. The nest was between these signs, and there were indications that the young would have fledged by now. Kim Eckert found a nest in a burn on the Lima Grade Road off the Gunflint Trail, 4 miles northeast of the Lima Mountain Rd. He also reported Black-backeds from the Gunflint Trail, just west of the jct. with CR 47, and another bird 1.2 miles beyond the Seagull Guard Station near the jct. with Forest Road 1351.
In northern Lake County, Black-backeds nested in the burn on the south side of Hwy 1, 9 miles east of the jct. with Cty Rd 2. BOREAL CHICKADEES nested on the Spruce Road, about four-tenths of a mile beyond Endless Waters Road.
Back on the Gunflint Trail, Kim Eckert also found a WILSON'S WARBLER at the Seagull Guard Station, and a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER on the Lima Grade 1 mile north of the Lima Mountain Road.
Many observers saw GREAT GRAY OWLS near the junction of Arkola Rd (Cty Rd 52) and Owl Ave (Cty Rd 202/203) in the Sax-Zim area. This week, a young Great Gray was often visible near the drainage ditch that runs north from 52, a half-mile east of Owl Ave.
Also in the Sax-Zim area, Mike Hendrickson reported a LE CONTE'S SPARROW on Correction Line Rd, 2 telephone poles east of Dart Rd north of Meadowlands. SHARP-TAILED GROUSE are present on Cty Rd 29, 1.4 miles north of 133.
The SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER at the Strand and North Tischer Roads was never re-found, but Sue Levy reported a Scissor-tail on the Homestead Road, a tenth of a mile north of Hwy 61 on the 17th.
Kim Risen had at least 4 YELLOW RAILS in the McGregor Marsh on the 17th, plus another just south of the town of Tamarack. In Duluth, Kim reported a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in the woods of Magney-Snively Park.
SANDERLINGS, DUNLINS, and a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER were being seen at Park Point at least through the 16th. Single RED-THROATED LOONS were reported by Steve Weston on the 12th and by Wayne Niely on the 14th.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, June 27.
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.
