Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *January 31, 2008 *MNDU0801.31-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: January 31, 2008
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, January 31st, 2008 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The SLATY-BACKED GULL that has been seen off and on at the Superior landfill since December was photographed by Josh Christian on the 26th. Peder Svingen watched what may have been the same bird on the 27th from a long distance near the WLSSD treatment plant in the Duluth harbor. Also present was a HOODED MERGANSER, 11 GLAUCOUS GULLS, a second-cycle GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL, and a first-cycle THAYER'S GULL. Kim Eckert found a third-cycle ICELAND GULL and another THAYER’S GULL near WLSSD on the same day, and he saw the Great Black-backed Gull later in the afternoon at Canal Park.
Peder also found two SNOWY OWLS on the 27th along Airport Road in Duluth. One was near the federal prison and the other was near the Natural Resources Research Institute. The NORTHERN HAWK OWL was relocated on the 26th along Airport Road. At least one group of birders was stopped by security personnel in the area over the weekend. Dave Gilbertson found a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK in his yard on the 30th along Plum Avenue in Lakewood Township.
Several species of interest continue to be seen in the Sax-Zim Bog area. The NORTHERN HAWK OWL along CR 7, 0.5 mile south of the Stone Lake Road was found by several observers as recently as the 26th. An AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER was found along the Blue Spruce Road (CR 211), 0.4 mile north of CR 133, and a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was 0.1 mile north of CR 133. Sparky Stensaas saw an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER on the 26th along the McDavitt Road (CR 213), 3.1 miles north of the Sax Road (CR 28), and another along the Lake Nichols Road, 1.1 mile west of US Highway 53. A BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was also seen 1.1 miles west of Highway 53.
Three BOREAL CHICKADEES were seen on the 26th along the McDavitt Road, 3.1 miles north of the Sax Road, and another was seen along the Arkola Road (CR 52), 0.5 mile east of Owl Avenue (CR 203). A BROWN CREEPER was seen on the 25th along the Admiral Road (CR 788), 0.1 mile north of the Zim Road (CR 27). A flock of 46 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS was relocated on the 26th along CR 29, 0.4 mile south of CR 133, just west of Meadowlands. A feeding station along the Blue Spruce Road (CR 211) one mile north of CR 133 continues to host EVENING GROSBEAKS, PINE GROSBEAKS, COMMON REDPOLLS, and at least three HOARY REDPOLLS.
A SPRUCE GROUSE was seen on the 27th by Kim Eckert and Linda Sparling along Lake County Road 2, 0.1 mile north of the Greenwood Lake public access. Sparky Stensaas found three SHARP-TAILED GROUSE in Aitkin County on the 27th along MN Highway 210 at milepost 185.5, just west of the Carlton County line. Sparky also found two flocks of RED CROSSBILLS in Carlton County at the University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center along CR 5.
A NORTHERN HAWK OWL was found by Barb McGregor and Sue Bergman on the 27th along Aitkin County Road 8, just west of MN Highway 65 south of McGregor. Warren Nelson relocated the SNOWY OWL northeast of Aitkin along Highway 169/210 near 370th Lane. Warren also found 12 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE on CR 18 about 1.2 miles east of US Highway 169. He found a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER along MN Highway 200 east of Jacobson about 100 yards west of milepost 198, and another at milepost 199. BOREAL CHICKADEES were also seen along Highway 200 at the Rabey tree farm, about 200 hundred yards west of milepost 186.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, February 7th.
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