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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *March 31, 2005 *MNST0503.31 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: March 31, 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 31st.
As of March 26th, the gray-morph GYRFALCON was still in northeastern Dakota County. It was most recently reported by Becky Lystig on 200th Street just east of Fischer Avenue.
Karl Bardon reported an adult CALIFORNIA GULL on the 30th, in a field in Inver Grove Heights, Dakota County. He found it on the south side of 117th Street, a quarter of a mile west of U.S. Highway 52. On the 28th, he found a male EURASIAN WIGEON in Winona County, at the Verchota Landing to the Mississippi River, along the Prairie Island Road. This is just east of Minnesota City.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are still 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 1, 4, 22, and 73, and along state highway 65. A Great Gray Owl has been seen seen at West Medicine Lake Park in Hennepin County since the mid February.
Paul Lehman found a sub-adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in the Pine Bend area of Dakota County on the 31st.
Unusual was the possible PRAIRIE FALCON seen on the 27th from the Sax-Zim Bog area of St. Louis County. It was reported about two hundred yards west of the junction of Arkola Avenue and County Road 7. This is both an unusual location and date for this species.
A flock of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS was reported by Jim Browning from the Carlos State Park picnic area campground in Douglas County on March 27th.
I also have recent reports of TUNDRA SWAN, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, COMMON LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, GREAT BLUE HERON, GREAT EGRET, TURKEY VULTURE, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, AMERICAN PIPIT, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, SONG SPARROW, HARRIS'S SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, and EASTERN MEADOWLARK.
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