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*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*September 16, 1999
*MNST9910.16

-Birds mentioned

• Pacific Loon
• Northern Harrier
• Cooper's Hawk
• Northern Goshawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Swainson's Hawk
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• POMARINE JAEGER
• Caspian Tern
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Swainson's Thrush
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• White-throated Sparrow
• GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: September 16, 1999
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@uswest.net)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)

This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday September 16th sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

In Jackson County on the 11th Kim Eckert found a flock of more than twenty GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES in a pasture along Minnesota Highway 86, three miles north of the Iowa border. On the 12th at South Heron Lake, Jackson County he found 16 species of shorebirds, including a lone BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER.

From Duluth I have three interesting reports. A POMARINE JAEGER continues to be seen on Lake Superior near downtown, though the last reliable report was from September 12th. Mike Hendrickson found a PACIFIC LOON along the North Shore in east Duluth on September 13th, and it was still present on the 15th, at about the 8500 block of the Old North Shore Road. And at Hawk Ridge more than 40,000 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were seen on Wednesday September 15th, while a few other raptors such as COOPER'S HAWK, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER, and SWAINSON'S HAWK also passed overhead.

A few CASPIAN TERNS were on Turtle Lake in Ramsey County on the 15th.

Also on the 15th, Matt Etterson reported a male BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER foraging along a trail just east of the Lauderdale Hollows apartment complex in Ramsey County.

Other migrants reported include RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, several species of warblers, and a few small parties of WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday September 23rd.

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