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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *September 18, 2003 *MNST0309.18 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: September 18, 2003
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday September 18th.
In a marsh south of Blue Earth and northwest of Elmore at the Pilot Grove Waterfowl Production Area, Carolyn Fischer found a WHITE-FACED IBIS on September 15th. The exact location was the junction of Faribault County 360 and 60 Street.
Also on the 15th, a total of 102,329 raptors passed over Hawk Ridge in Duluth, more than twice the previous single day record. Of these, 101,698 were BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. To put these numbers in perspective, over the past ten years, Hawk Ridge has averaged 72,615 birds over the course of the entire fall migration. Likewise, Pennsylvania's Hawk Mountain has averaged about 20,000 raptors each fall season.
At the 40th Avenue West-Erie Pier area in Duluth, a SMITH'S LONGSPUR and three NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS were seen earlier in the week. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and two WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were also seen there.
The fall's first DUNLIN was recorded on the weekly shorebird survey at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County. Also seen were 108 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS.
A SHORT-EARED OWL was in northern Becker County on the 14th. It was found just south of the Waubun Marsh WMA.
Also in Becker County, an adult COMMON MOORHEN was still in the wetland adjacent to County Road 104, approximately two miles northeast of the town of Audubon. Two juveniles were in the pond east of the road. And the Common Moorhen previously reported at the Old Cedar Avenue bridge in Bloomington, Hennepin County was still present as recently as the 17th. Walk out to the observation deck west of the parking lot and look west.
Several additional migrants have been noted recently. On the 12th, a female BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER was at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Hennepin County. It was seen along the path that runs east from the main entrance along the parking lot. Also reported over the past week were CASPIAN TERN, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.
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