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-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*April 7, 2001
*MNST0104.07

-Birds mentioned

• Common Loon
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Great Egret
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Snow Goose
• Ross's Goose
• Turkey Vulture
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• American Woodcock
• Franklin's Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• Glaucous Gull
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Eastern Phoebe
• Tree Swallow
• Brown Creeper
• Eastern Bluebird
• Mountain Bluebird
• Fox Sparrow
• Common Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 7, 2001
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@uswest.net)

This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday April 5th, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

As many as nine ROSS'S GEESE are at Silver Lake in Rochester, Olmsted County. Chris Benson reported them there on March 31st. On the 1st of April two Ross's Geese were picked out of a large group of SNOW GEESE and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE along Jackson County road 24 just east of South Heron Lake. Greater White-fronted Geese were seen at two other locations in Jackson County on April 3rd. A group of about 30 was found one mile south of the intersection of county roads 9 and 4, and another flock of similar size was seen on the west side of state highway 86, south of highway 34.

LESSER YELLOWLEGS and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS were in Martin County on the 3rd. These shorebirds were found southwest of the town of Truman on county road 148, about one mile west of 170th street.

The MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD was still at Tamarac NWR in Becker County on March 30th. The bird is being seen along Becker County Road 26, about two miles east of the visitor center, foraging around a small wetland across from the Blackbird Auto Tour Route.

On March 30th Tom Tustison found a GLAUCOUS GULL on the Mississippi River near Nicollet Island in St. Paul. It was observed on both the east and west sides of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge. Jim Mattsson reported the first FRANKLIN'S GULL on April 1st. It was found in Hastings, Dakota County at Lock and Dam #2. Other migrants reported in good numbers over the past week include COMMON LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, TURKEY VULTURE, GREAT EGRET, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, RING-BILLED GULL, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, FOX SPARROW, BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD, and COMMON GRACKLE.

Thanks to Jon Peterson, Craig Mandel, Connie Brunell, Paul Conrad, and Nancy Jackson.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday April 12th.

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