Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *May 15, 2008 *MNDU0805.15-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: May 15, 2008
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 15th, 2008 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
A juvenile PACIFIC LOON and a RED-THROATED LOON were found by Mike Hendrickson on the 13th on Lake Superior at the Park Point recreational area. A PIPING PLOVER was seen on the 13th by Sparky Stensaas just south of the Sky Harbor Airport. This may be one of the birds seen the previous week near 22nd Street. Peder Svingen saw a RED-THROATED LOON on the 15th on Lake Superior from the recreational area, as well as an EARED GREBE in the harbor at the rowing club. Peder also found five RED-THROATED LOONS on the 15th at Gull Bluff on Wisconsin Point, and two WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS in Allouez Bay. At Indian Point on the 13th, Peder saw a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.
Kim Eckert briefly had a EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE at his feeders on the 9th on the 1900 block of West Kent Road near the UMD campus. A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER was reported by several observers during the past week at the Park Point recreational area near the bath house. The RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER at 57th Avenue East and Juniata Street in Duluth was still present on the 15th, as well as a HARRIS'S SPARROW.
Lissa Grover had a first-spring male SUMMER TANAGER on the 15th at her feeder in central Grand Marais. A SUMMER TANAGER was also seen on the 13th and 14th in downtown Two Harbors at 304 2nd Avenue. A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was seen on the 14th at the same location. Another SUMMER TANAGER was reported in Aitkin County on the 14th at a private residence north of McGregor.
A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on the 12th in the Sax-Zim Bog at the Kelsey-Fraser Road and CR 29. Another GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on the 15th along CR 4, 10 miles north of Island Lake.
Mike Steffes found two singing BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS on the 15th at the top of Oberg Mountain in Cook County. A male was also reported from a feeder in Lutsen on the 12th. Three WILSON'S PHALAROPES were seen at the Castle Danger sewage ponds on the 14th.
Earl Orf heard a YELLOW RAIL in Itasca County on the 14th along US Highway 2, 5.6 miles east of MN Highway 65. Earl found a HUDSONIAN GODWIT and a MARBLED GODWIT on the 15th in a flooded field along CR 10 just south of the Trout Lake community center, four to five miles south of US Highway 169. Six HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen on the 13th in Aitkin County in the flooded fields along CR 15 about 3.5 miles west of Aitkin.
Recent new arrivals in the area include SEDGE WREN, GRAY CATBIRD and NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 9th, LEAST FLYCATCHER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER and INDIGO BUNTING on the 10th, VIRGINIA RAIL, CHIMNEY SWIFT and RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD on the 11th, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH on the 12th, SORA, BLACK TERN, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, WILSON’S WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER, BOBOLINK and NORTHERN ORIOLE on the 13th, VEERY, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER and AMERICAN PIPIT on the 14th, and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and WHIP-POOR-WILL on the 15th.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 22nd.
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