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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *March 24, 2005 *MNST0503.24 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: March 24, 2005
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, March 24th.
As of March 20th, the gray-morph GYRFALCON was still in Dakota County along state highway 55. It was most recently reported between county road 42 and Jacob Avenue. And on the 21st, Deb Buria-Falkowski saw a Gyrfalcon near Spirit Lake in downtown Virginia, St. Louis County.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS continue to be easy to find across northern Minnesota, especially in Aitkin County and Pine County. Many observers still report finding multiple Great Gray Owls along Aitkin County Roads 4, 5, 22, and 73, and along state highway 65.
Mary Stefanski saw a SNOWY OWL in Aitkin County on the 23rd, along Portage Lake Road.
A ROSS'S GOOSE was seen by Jim Mattsson standing on the ice with 20 Canada Geese at the "frog pond" on Ravenna Trail in Hastings, Dakota County, on March 21st. This is a backwater area accessed about half a mile east of U.S. Highway 61 on 10th Street.
On the 19th, Randell Rogers heard as many as three BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and saw one THREE-TOED WOODPECKER in the Sax-Zim bog, St. Louis County, along McDavitt Road, two and a half miles north of the Sax Road.
A TURKEY VULTURE seen soaring over Duluth with an adult GOLDEN EAGLE on the 22nd
Ken and Molly Hoffman saw three HARLEQUIN DUCKS and a larger flock of LONG-TAILED DUCKS off Artist's Point in Grand Marais, Cook County, on the 21st. And Jim Lind reported a flock of about 80 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS in Askov, Pine County, on the 17th.
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