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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *January 10, 2008 *MNST0801.10-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: January 10, 2008
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, January 10th 2008.
An IVORY GULL was seen in Duluth on the 7th, but it departed in the afternoon and has not been seen since. The bird had been roosting on the ice behind the Canal Park Inn.
At least one BARROW'S GOLDENEYE is still being seen on the Mississippi River near Point Douglas, Washington County, as is the adult male HARLEQUIN DUCK.
On January 4th, a pair of MUTE SWANS was on the Mississippi River south of Winona at the junction of U.S. Highway 61 and Winona County Road 15.
A SNOWY OWL was seen on the 4th at the Duluth Port Terminal, along Helberg Drive between Garfield Avenue and Port Terminal Drive.
Three GREAT GRAY OWLS were along the Lake Nichols Road in the Sax Zim Bog on January 6th. Two were about half a mile east of county road 7, and the other was about two miles east of county road 7. Another was along McDavitt Road, 3.2 miles north of county road 28. A NORTHERN HAWK OWL was seen at about the same time along county road 7 near county road 28, and another was along county road 7 at the Stone Lake Road. And a Northern Hawk Owl was in Duluth near the corner of Blackman Avenue and MacFarlane Road on the morning of January 5th.
Dale Yerger reported two BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and one AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER in Aitkin County on the 4th. The location was three-quarters of a mile west of mile marker 183 along state highway 200.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, January 17th 2008.
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