Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
Minnesota Duluth/North Shore RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *November 26, 2011 *MNDU1111.26-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: November 26, 2011
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@frontiernet.net)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for November 26th, 2011 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
An adult male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was found by Peder Svingen on the19th at the south end of Hearding Island at 19th Street on Park Point. It was relocated on the 25th between 32nd and 33rd Streets. Peder found an ICELAND GULL on the 18th at Canal Park and it was still present on the 20th. Kim Eckert found a SURF SCOTER on the 25th just north of the Park Point Recreation Area.
A VARIED THRUSH was found on the 19th on the 4300 block of Cooke Street in the Lakeside neighborhood. Bob Meyers found an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER and a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER on the 23rd along the Superior Hiking Trail about a mile west of the Caribou Wayside five miles east of Little Marais in Lake County. Sue Plankis found a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER on the 19th in the Grand Marais municipal campground.
SNOWY OWLS are showing up in good numbers across the state, although I have not heard any recent reports close to Duluth or the North Shore. Shawn Conrad and Earl Orf saw two SNOWY OWLS in Itasca County on the 25th along the eastern edge of Lake Winnibigoshish. Butch Ukura found one on the 24th north of Aitkin near US Highway 169 and CR 54.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, December 1st.
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