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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *July 10, 2003 *MNDU0307.10 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: July 10, 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, July 10, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The WHITE-WINGED DOVE reported by John Hockema from near Grand Marais on the 5th was not relocated later in the day and has not been reported since.
However, while looking for the dove, Bob Dunlap found a VESPER SPARROW on Cook Cty Rd 7 west of Grand Marais on the 8th. On the same day he saw a group of ten AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS on Lake Superior west of Grand Marais.
On the Gunflint Trail, Sue McDonnell reported three BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS on the Magnetic Rock Trail near the end of the Gunflint. Two birds were fairly near the beginning of the trail and a third was in a burn farther from the Gunflint Trail.
Jan Green reported a TRUMPETER SWAN on Stone Lake at the end of the Skibo Road, southeast of Hoyt Lakes in northern St. Louis County.
Jonas Benson spotted an escaped Ringed Turtle-Dove near 6th Ave E and 8th St in Duluth on the 8th.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, July 17.
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.
