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-Birds mentioned

• Cackling Goose
• Canvasback
• Long-tailed Duck
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Swainson's Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• Sora
• Semipalmated Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Thayer's Gull
• Forster's Tern
• Great Gray Owl
• Whip-poor-will
• Chimney Swift
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Boreal Chickadee
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Yellow Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Connecticut Warbler
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Harris's Sparrow
• Baltimore Oriole

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: May 12, 2005
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
Transcriber: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 12th, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

The West Skyline Hawk Count had the largest flight in their nine-year history on May 6th, when more than 10,000 raptors were counted, including record-high counts of 9,206 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS and 719 SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS, as well as a SWAINSON'S HAWK and a GOLDEN EAGLE.

Recent arrivals in the area include SANDERLING on the 10th, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, OVENBIRD, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, and BALTIMORE ORIOLE on the 9th, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, and HARRIS'S SPARROW on the 8th, SORA, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, CHIMNEY SWIFT, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW on the 6th, and FORSTER'S TERN on the 5th.

Don Kienholz reported a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER at 42nd Street on Park Point on the 9th. Dave Grosshuesch found a CONNECTICUT WARBLER, BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER, and BOREAL CHICKADEES along the Tomahawk Trail east of MN Highway 1 in northern Lake County on the 10th. Sparky Stensaas found a WHIP-POOR-WILL south of Wrenshall in Carlton County on the 10th, and a LONG-TAILED DUCK at Indian Point in west Duluth on the 11th. Two LONG-TAILED DUCKS have also been seen at Agate Bay in Two Harbors since the 9th.

At least one CACKLING GOOSE was still being seen at Interstate Island as recently as the 10th. A first-winter THAYER'S GULL was found in Two Harbors on the 9th, which was probably the same individual seen at Stoney Point on the 1st. A CANVASBACK was seen at Flood Bay north of Two Harbors on the 6th. GREAT GRAY OWLS are still being seen at scattered locations across northern Minnesota, including Stickney and McDavitt Roads in the Sax-Zim bog, Lake County Road 2 near Greenwood Lake, and Carlton County Road 146 near Holyoke.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 17th.

The new telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834- 2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded message.

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 to mou@cbs.umn.edu, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.

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