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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *July 7, 2005 *MNST0507.07 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: July 7, 2005
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, July 7th.
Jesse Ellis reported a mated pair of CLARK'S GREBES with young on the 5th. The birds were at Lake Osakis on the Douglas County side at the boat launch found along Douglas County Road 10, about two miles east of county road 3.
Interesting was the SOLITARY SANDPIPER reported by Craig Mandel over the July 4th weekend. He found it at the Big Falls sewage ponds in Koochiching County.
On July 5th, Chris Benson found a EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE near the First National Bank in Plainview, Wabasha County. The bird was easily seen from the car wash at the corner of West Broadway and 1st Street.
On July 6th, Jim Ryan reported a possible NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in St. Paul, Ramsey County, at the northwest corner of the Cretin/Vandalia exit off Interstate 94.
And on the 4th, Emily Hutchins reported a possible GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE northeast of Mazaska Lake in Rice County, half a mile south of the intersection of Fairbanks Avenue and 135th Street West. Denny Martin reported a Great-tailed Grackle at the Somsen WMA, at the junction of State Highway 14 and Brown County Road 12, just west of New Ulm. Another was at the Rosenau-Lambrecht WMA about two miles west of this location on Highway 14.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, July 14th.
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