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*October 16, 2003
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-Birds mentioned

• Green-winged Teal
• Gadwall
• Long-tailed Duck
• Surf Scoter
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Common Tern
• Forster's Tern
• Short-eared Owl
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Townsend's Solitaire
• Northern Shrike
• Nashville Warbler
• Kentucky Warbler
• Dickcissel
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Le Conte's Sparrow
• Snow Bunting
• Western Meadowlark
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Rusty Blackbird
• White-winged Crossbill

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: October 16, 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, October 16, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

SNOW BUNTINGS were reported from several locations this week. Don Kienholz found a male BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER at a dead spruce in the parking lot of the Lester Park Golf Course on the 14th. He also reported WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS from that area. Another BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER, a female, has been seen recently in the pine woods at Hawk Ridge. I also have a second-hand report that a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE has been seen at Hawk Ridge for over a week.

Deb Buria-Falkowski reported 4 NORTHERN SHRIKES from mines in Virginia over the weekend.

Today Sparky Stensaas found two SHORT-EARED OWLS at 40th Ave West. He also found a NASHVILLE WARBLER in alternate plumage, eleven species of sparrows and over 20 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. A GADWALL was at 40th on Tuesday.

Jim Lind found a COMMON TERN and a FORSTER'S TERN at Flood Bay near Two Harbors on Wednesday. Both birds are quite uncommon up the North Shore. There was also a LE CONTE'S SPARROW at the wetland at Flood Bay on Wednesday. On Monday, Kim Eckert and others saw two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, one at 92nd and Congdon Rd in Duluth, and the other near the train museum and tugboat in Two Harbors, where there was also a singing WESTERN MEADOWLARK. Farther up the North Shore on the 12th, Jim found a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE at the Lutsen Sea Villas and nine species of warblers at various locations.

Mike Hendrickson reported a SURF SCOTER on Lake Superior on Monday and a LONG-TAILED DUCK on Tuesday. Both birds were seen from the observation deck near the airport. Mike also reported a flock of 35 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on Tuesday.

Peder Svingen reported a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD over his yard in eastern Duluth on the 14th. Peg Robertsen saw a flock of 30 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS in Silver Bay over the weekend. Laura Erickson reported a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER in her yard in Lakeside on Monday, and today, Kim Eckert found another near the entrance to Chester Bowl.

To our north, researchers at Thunder Cape Bird Observatory banded a male KENTUCKY WARBLER on the 13th, and a DICKCISSEL was seen in Thunder Bay on the same day.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Wednesday, October 22.

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.

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