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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *June 2, 2005 *MNST0506.02 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: June 2, 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, June 2nd.
In Clay County, the ROCK WREN and the two SAY'S PHOEBES are still being seen daily. Directions from the town of Felton are to go south on state highway 9 for two miles. Turn east on county road 108 and drive to the T intersection. Follow the gravel road left and north to
the gravel pit area.
Mary Broten reported a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK at her feeder in Marshall County on May 29th. She lives an eighth of a mile west of U.S. Highway 59, about 12 miles north of Thief River Falls.
On May 31st, Drew Smith found a second summer LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at the west end of Black Dog Lake in Dakota County.
On the 1st, Bruce Baer reported a BELL'S VIREO from the Hogback Ridge
Trai,l east of the State Highway 77 bridge at the Bass Ponds area of Bloomington. Check the willows along the edge of the lake. Brian Smith found a Bell's Vireo on the same day in the willow thickets on the west end of Rosenau/Lambrecht WMA, which is west of New Ulm, Brown County, along U.S. Highway 14. To reach the location, turn south off U.S. Highway 14 onto 200th Avenue and search the thickets to the east.
Matt Mecklenburg found a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in rural Clay County on
June 1st, at 15544 =96 60th Avenue South. And on May 31st, Pam Perry had a Northern Mockingbird visit her yard in Brainerd, Crow Wing County.
On June 2nd, a singing HOODED WARBLER was found by Al Schirmacher along the Blue Hill Trail of Sherburne NWR in Sherburne County. The location was about a ten minute walk from the parking lot.
The next scheduld update of this tape is Thursday, June 9th.
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