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-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*April 28, 2005
*MNST0504.28

-Birds mentioned

• Clark's Grebe
• Cattle Egret
• Swainson's Hawk
• Black-necked Stilt
• American Avocet
• Willet
• Least Sandpiper
• Baird's Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Franklin's Gull
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Purple Martin
• Marsh Wren
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Lark Sparrow

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 28, 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, April 28th.

Late last week there was a somewhat ambiguous report of a BLACK-NECKED

STILT from Big Stone County, and the bird was briefly relocated on April 24th at the Centennial WPA, which is along county road 6 about 4.3 miles east of the town of Clinton. Unfortunately the bird has not been seen since.

On April 28th, two CATTLE EGRETS were in a farm field near Long Prairie

in Todd County. The location was the dead end road that goes west from

county road 11 about a mile north of county road 10. AMERICAN AVOCETS, WILLET, LEAST SANDPIPERS, and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were

all seen by Denny and Barb Martin in Big Stone County on the 25th. The

avocet was on county road 61 about a mile north of county road 4. They

also report a probable CLARK'S GREBE on Thielke Lake.

A EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was at Chad Aakre's feeder in Winona County last week, and it is still being seen in the general area. Check especially along 10th Street between Harriet and Wilson.

There have also been recent reports of SWAINSON'S HAWK, DUNLIN, CASPIAN

TERN, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, PURPLE MARTIN, MARSH WREN,

BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, YELLOW WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, and LARK SPARROW.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, May 5th.

Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com=

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