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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *January 23, 2003 *MNDU0301.23 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: January 23, 2003
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 728-5030
Compiler: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
Transcriber: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, January 23rd, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
There have been no further sightings of the GYRFALCON that was banded last Saturday in the harbor.
A HARLEQUIN DUCK was seen in Two Harbors on the 19th but has not been reported since. The TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was seen again on the 19th, this time on the west side of Agate Bay in spruce trees near the tugboat.
There are good numbers of gulls at the Superior Landfill, including around 800 HERRING GULLS, 3 adult THAYER'S GULLS, an adult ICELAND GULL, 16 GLAUCOUS GULLS, and a first-winter GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL.
In the Sax-Zim area, a SHARP-TAILED GROUSE was seen on Cty Rd 52 between 207 and 202. GREAT GRAY OWLS were reported from Cty Rd 7, 2.25 and 2.9 miles north of the Sax Rd. As many as four BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES have been seen at the end of the Blue Spruce Rd east of Meadowlands, and a RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD is coming to a feeder on the same road.
In Aitkin County, a GREAT GRAY OWL has been seen on Cty Rd 18 west of Pietz's road. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen over the weekend in the town of Aitkin, as well as in Cromwell in Carlton Cty and Floodwood in St. Louis Cty.
>From Grand Marais, Jim Lind reported flocks of LONG-TAILED DUCKS off Artist's Point and in Good Harbor Bay, BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS in the municipal campground, and a NORTHERN PINTAIL in the Grand Marais harbor. Another pintail is still being seen in Duluth at the corner of the lake.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, January 30.
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.
