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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *January 8, 2004 *MNST0401.08 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: January 8, 2004
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 January 8th.
A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD continues to be seen in Grand Marais, Cook County, near the junction of 3rd and 4th streets. Various flocks of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS are also being seen in town.
On January 3rd, Blaine Seeliger reported a SPRUCE GROUSE about five miles north of Lake County Road 15 on Lake County Road 2. He also found a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER on St. Louis County Road 133 two and a half miles east of St. Louis County Road 7 in Sax Zim.
The HARLEQUIN DUCK in Two Harbors, Lake County, was seen as recently as the 5th and the Harlequin Duck at the French River near Duluth was last reported on the 2nd.
Two GREAT GRAY OWLS were seen over the weekend in Aitkin County, a tenth of a mile west of the junction of County Road 18 and Pietz's Road. A Great Gray Owl has been seen in the Sax-Zim Bog as well, along St. Louis County Road 133 a mile and a half west of U.S. Highway 53.
A CAROLINA WREN is still being seen in western Ramsey County. It was seen in the backyard at a suet feeder on the 100 block of Stinson Blvd, New Brighton, just north of Ramsey County Road E.
On the 3rd, the LONG-TAILED DUCK was still on the St. Croix River at Pt. Douglas, Washington County.
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