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-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*September 23, 2004
*MNST0409.23

-Birds mentioned

• Red Knot
• Little Gull
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Sabine's Gull
• Hooded Warbler

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: September 23, 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, September 23rd.

On the 22nd, Mike Henderickson found a juvenile SABINE'S GULL on Lake Superior in Duluth. It was seen on the lake side of Park Point and was observed from the wooden platform between the Recreation Area and the airport. I have no recent reports of the juvenile Sabine's Gull found last Saturday at the Serpent Lake sewage ponds in Crow Wing County. But I do have a secondhand report from the 20th of a Sabine's Gull at Spirit Lake on the Minnesota - Iowa line in Jackson County, and an unconfirmed report of another Sabine's Gull from Tamarack Point at Lake Winnibogoshish in Cass County on the 19th. An adult LITTLE GULL was also reported from here on the same day.

On the 18th, a RED KNOT was at the south side of the bath house of the Recreation Area of Park Point in Duluth.

A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was still on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, on the 22nd.

A somewhat late HOODED WARBLER was seen by Craig Mandel at Seven Mile Creek Park in Nicollet County on the 20th. It was found along the trail about 100 yards west of last parking area.

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