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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *November 14, 2002 *MNDU0211.14 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: November 14, 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, November 14th, 2002, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Pam Benson found a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD today at Croftville, east of Grand Marais, near fire marker 1460. We also found a SURF SCOTER and a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at Good Harbor Bay, and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and a flock of 25 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at Paradise Beach. In Grand Marais, a female BLACK SCOTER was still present on the east side of the harbor, and a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER was near the Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery. There are still hundreds of Herring Gulls in Grand Marais. We saw no Pine Grosbeaks, Bohemian Waxwings, or redpolls in a full day of birding the shore.
Jim Lind found a SHORT-EARED OWL today at the end of the Homestead Road, about six miles from Hwy 61. Mike Hendrickson found 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Beaver Bay Sewage Ponds on the 9th. Don Kienholz reported 2 BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and several small groups of COMMON REDPOLLS at Lester Park on the 7th. Last Friday, the 8th, Jim Lind reported a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE, 2 BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and a female RUDDY DUCK from Two Harbors.
Kim Eckert reported that a hunter shot an adult female Smew on Island Lake near Duluth on November 6th. The bird appears not to have been wild.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, November 21st.
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@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.
