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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *October 2, 2003 *MNST0310.02 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: October 2, 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 October 2nd.
A juvenile SABINE'S GULL was seen on the 1st in Duliuth. It was foraging over Lake Superior near the Sky Harbor airport of Park Point. Also seen from here were WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, SURF SCOTERS, BLACK SCOTERS, and an unidentified JAEGER. And at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis were both a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and an adult THAYER'S GULL on the 28th. Both birds were seen close to the western shore in the evening.
On September 27th, a SNOWY EGRET was in Odessa Township. Look along Big Stone County Road 77, one and three quarter miles south of county road 10. And a LITTLE BLUE HERON was in Edina, Hennepin County, on the 1st. It was seen just east of state highway 100 at Lake Cornelia along west 66th Street.
A RED-THROATED LOON was in Grand Marais, Cook County on the 28th. The bird was seen off the eastern tip of Artist's Point. And a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was at the Cutface Creek wayside rest on the 28th, about four miles south of Grand Marais.
In northern Cottonwood County, a flock of approximately 52 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was in a field at the Red Rock Prairie preservation the 28th.
A first county record SMITH'S LONGSPUR was in Pennington County on the 28th at the Thief River Falls sewage lagoons, and another was in Two Harbors, Lake County, along Waterfront Drive at the railroad tracks on the 29th.
Unusual was the WHIP-POOR-WILL heard calling September 27th at Fort Ridgely State Park in Nicollet County. A record late PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was at Wood Lake Nature Center in Hennepin County on September 26th. Other migrants still being seen in the state include GOLDEN EAGLE, HERMIT THRUSH, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, numerous warblers, plus FOX SPARROW, HARRIS'S SPARROW, and DARK-EYED JUNCO.
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The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, October 9th.
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