Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *February 4, 1999 *MNST9902.04 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: February 4, 1999
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (tony@millcomm.com)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday February 4th sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
On Wednesday, February 3rd, Bob Janssen and Ray Glassel found two EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in the town of Jasper, Pipestone County. The doves were seen very near the Rock County line.
A COMMON GRACKLE was at a bird feeder on state hwy. 99 in Rice County on the 3rd, about a mile west of the town of Morristown.
A MUTE SWAN is still being seen on the Cannon River near the Lyndale Motel in the town of Faribault, Rice County. Forest Strnad saw it there on February 3rd.
On January 31st, David Johnson reported a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Louisville Swamp Unit of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, near the Jordan Avenue entrance between the towns of Shakopee and Jordan in Scott County. Betsy Beneke also reported a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, this one was seen on February 2nd, along U.S. highway 59, about three and a half miles north of the town of Appleton in Swift County. Betsy also reports that many RED CROSSBILLS and WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS can be found at Tamarac NWR in Becker County.
Chris Hockema found a SNOWY OWL on February 1st along Highway 30, one and a quarter miles west of Olmsted County Road 1.
Dan Floren reported seeing GRAY PARTRIDGE for the past few weekends along state hwy. 22 in Meeker County near East Lake Ripley and Round Lake.
And finally, Jay Hamernick called to report that a BARRED OWL can be seen with some regularity at Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, Anoka County.
Other species reported by many callers include CEDAR WAXWING, AMERICAN ROBIN, SNOW BUNTING, and PINE GROSBEAK.
Thanks to Steve Cook, Kurt Haroldson, Dave Baden, Karen Sussman, and Diane Anderson.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday February 11th.
Send your rare and unusual Minnesota sightings to our electronic hotline: MnRBA@linux.winona.msus.edu. To learn more, send a message (the message being these two words: info end) to mnrba-request@linux.winona.msus.edu.
