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Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: May 2, 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 Sunday May 2nd.

Jeff Stephenson reported today that he and a group of Minnesota birders discovered a ROCK WREN at Split Rock Creek Recreation Area in Pipestone County. The bird is hanging out among the rocks below the dam.

A WHITE-FACED IBIS was found by Herb Dingmann in Sherburne County today. Take U.S. Highway 10 to Sherburne County Road 60, about three miles northwest of Clear Lake. Turn left on County Road 60, follow it west for one and a half miles, then right for a quarter mile, then left again for three-quarters of a mile. Another White-faced Ibis was seen briefly at the Lewiston sewage ponds in Winona County on the 30th.

At Lake Hanson in Meeker County there were four SNOWY EGRETS on April 29th. The lake is along 580th Avenue about three and a half miles west of the town of Litchfield.

There were eleven AMERICAN AVOCETS in the marsh one mile west of Montrose on U.S. Highway 12 in Wright County on the 29th. And southwest of here were two WILLETS along state highway 7 in McLeod County. These birds were in a flooded field about a quarter of a mile west of the Carver County line.

Jim Mattsson reported a RED-THROATED LOON from Dakota County on the 29 of April. This was a flyby at Lebanon Hills Regional Park, and the location was about half mile northwest of the intersection of Dodd Road and 120th Street West. Another flyby was the NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD reported by Julian Sellers on May 1st from the Weaver Dunes area in the Whitewater WMA in Winona County. And a Northern Mockingbird was seen the same day in Austin, Mower County. Dick Smaby found it along the river on the bike trail east of the intersection of Main Street South and 9th Place Southwest.

A GREAT GRAY OWL was reported from the Sax-Zim Bog area of St. Louis County on the 30th. It was seen 100 yards from the south end of Owl Avenue.

Fifteen species of warbler have been reported to date, including BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, and OVENBIRD. I also have recent reports of SANDERLING, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, AMERICAN PIPIT, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, LARK SPARROW, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, and DICKCISSEL.

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