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-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*August 11, 2005
*MNST0508.11

-Birds mentioned

• Cattle Egret
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
• Mississippi Kite
• American Golden-Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Carolina Wren
• Tennessee Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Mourning Warbler

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: August 11, 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, August 11th.

Three immature MISSISSIPPI KITES were reported from two locations on the 9th. Two birds cruised passed Frank Nicoletti at the 1500 block of east London Road in Duluth, and another was seen over Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis by Terry Brashear.

Two YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS have been in Madison Township, Lac Qui Parle County since the 31st of July, at a small pothole near U.S.

75, just southeast of its intersection with county road 59. Both birds were seen as recently as the 6th.

At the Jirik Sod Farm, situated south of the intersection of Dakota County Roads 66 and 79, birders have recently found AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. At the nearby 180th marsh, Jim Mattsson found SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, STILT SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S PHALAROPE.

And at the western end of Lake Byllesby in Dakota County, a CATTLE EGRET was seen standing on snag over the lake on the 8th.

Bill Bruins had a CAROLINA WREN in his backyard in Rochester, Olmsted

County on the 10th.

Chet Meyers reported on August 11th that he found seven species of warblers at the lakes area of Minneapolis, including MOURNING WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER,and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, August 18th.

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