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*April 6, 2006
*MNDU0604.06

-Birds mentioned

• Common Loon
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Tundra Swan
• Wood Duck
• Green-winged Teal
• Northern Pintail
• Blue-winged Teal
• Northern Shoveler
• Canvasback
• Ring-necked Duck
• Greater Scaup
• Lesser Scaup
• Long-tailed Duck
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Sandhill Crane
• American Woodcock
• Northern Hawk Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Tree Swallow
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Eastern Bluebird
• American Tree Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: April 6, 2006
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, April 6th, 2006 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Recent spring arrivals in the area include GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET and SONG SPARROW today, COMMON LOONS on the 5th, TREE SWALLOW and RUBY- CROWNED KINGLET on the 4th, WOOD DUCK and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW on the 3rd, NORTHERN PINTAIL, CANVASBACK, GREATER SCAUP, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, and AMERICAN TREE SPARROW on the 2nd, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, PIED-BILLED GREBE, and SANDHILL CRANES on the 1st, EASTERN BLUEBIRD on the 29th, and AMERICAN WOODCOCK on the 28th.

A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen at the West Skyline Hawk Count in Duluth on the 1st, and a dark morph HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK was seen on the 4th. TUNDRA SWANS are moving through the area in good numbers with several days of more than 200 at the West Skyline Hawk Count, and several hundred reported from Aitkin County over the weekend. Two LONG-TAILED DUCKS were seen on the 4th near the 9200 block of Congdon Boulevard (Scenic Highway 61) east of Duluth.

A NORTHERN HAWK OWL was seen on the 5th along the Homestead Road (CR 42) at the junction of the Clover Valley Road, but it could not be relocated today.

Warren Nelson found a SHORT-EARED OWL in Aitkin County on the 5th along CR 1, about 0.5 mile north of the diversion channel.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, April 13th.

The 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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