Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *August 14, 1997 *MNST9708.14 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: August 14, 1997
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (tony@mill2.MillComm.COM)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday August 14th sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. As always, to skip this recording and leave a message you can press 5 on your touch tone phone.
We welcome those callers who are in town this week for the AOU meeting at the University of Minnesota.
I have the unusual report of a Tundra Swan on Lake Como in St. Paul in Ramsey County on August 7th. Tundra Swans generally don't show up in Minnesota until late September and care must be taken to distinguish these birds from the Trumpeter Swan which is being reintroduced into the state.
Jeanie Joppru reports that among the shorebirds she found in Red Lake County were Dunlin, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, plus Least, White-rumped and Semipalmated Sandpipers. On August 9th most of these birds were present at the sewage lagoons near the town of Plummer. She also reports that at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County Sanderling, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, plus PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS were found in good numbers.
Numerous BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS continue to be found near the town of Empire in Dakota County. Check the sod farms along county road 66 near Blaine Ave, which is also labeled county road 79. Seven BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were reported near here from 200th Street south and Blaine Ave on August 9th.
Steve Dinsmore reported MARBLED GODWITS from Cottonwood County about two miles west and one and a half miles south of the town of Comfrey, and indications are that the birds nested in the area as two adults and two half-grown young were seen. In Carver County, a variety of shorebirds can be found in the wet fields and various mudflats around the towns of Norwood and Young America. On August 13th GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and COMMON SNIPE were all reported. And a WILSON'S PHALAROPE was seen on Lake Como in St. Paul on August 12th by Robin Bliss.
Marshall Howe reports finding nesting MERLINS on Little Sand Lake in central Hubbard County. A family of up to five birds was seen frequently from July 26th through August 8th.
Finally, ten WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS were seen near LaSalle Creek Bog in Itasca State Park on August 5th
Thanks to Karol Gressor and Chet Meyers.
For information on joining our state wide bird organization write the MOU at 10 Church Street SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, 55455. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday August 21st. If you have birds to report, please leave your name and phone number plus a brief but specific message which includes the name of the county where your sighting took place.
