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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Duluth/North Shore *August 17, 1995 *MNDL9508.17 - Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Duluth/North Shore
Date: August 17, 1995
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert
Transcriber: Sr. Pam Kern pkern@css1.css.edu
This is the Duluth birding report for Thursday, August 17, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Other then the WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS heard by Mike Henderson last weekend a few blocks north of the intersection of Central Entrance and Arlington Road in Duluth, nothing out of the ordinary has been reported since last week's tape.
It had been hoped that the east winds which have been prevailing lately, would have resulted in a jaeger or a rare gull or something similar at Park Point, but nothing like that has been reported.
However, there has been a lot of migration going on since last weekend. At the 40th Avenue West Erie Pier area mud flats, SHORT BILLED DOWITCHERS, BAIRD'S and STILT SANDPIPERS and other shorebirds have been seen, and on the beach on Park Point SANDERLINGS and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were found.
The first few hawks have been noticed from the main overlook at Hawk Ridge as our annual hawk count there has now started for the season. A few migrant COMMON NIGHTHAWKS have been noted at various locations this week, so far, no large flights of hundreds or thousands have been reported. But it is expected that there should be a big NIGHTHAWK movement within the nest few days. PURPLE MARTINS and other SWALLOWS have been seen staging together in preparation for migration. Flocks of CEDAR WAXWINGS, BLACKBIRDS, and EVENING GROSBEAKS continue to migrate down the North Shore. And a good variety of WARBLERS has been seen the past few days at various locations in Duluth.
The ???? of the count of hawks at Hawk Ridge our dawn count of all migrants at the Lakewood Pumping station will again take place this fall, starting on August 21. In some year's this census has compiled season totals of about a quarter of a million migrants.
And finally, there will be a clean-up session at the main overlook at Hawk Ridge on Tuesday, August 22 starting at 5:00 p.m.. These clean-ups usually take only a couple of hours and if you'd like to help, just bring a garbage bag or two and a pair of work gloves.
The next scheduled update of this tape will be on Thursday, August 24 and as always if you have birds to report, you may leave a message after the tone. BEEP
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