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*Minnesota
*Detroit Lakes
*September 15, 2000
*MNDL0009.15

-Birds mentioned

• American White Pelican
• Great Egret
• Bald Eagle
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Merlin
• Wild Turkey
• Sandhill Crane
• Killdeer
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Marbled Godwit
• Franklin's Gull
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Nashville Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Le Conte's Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Evening Grosbeak

Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: September 15, 2000
Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours)
Compiler: Betsy Beneke (BetsyBeneke@lakesnet.net)
Transcriber: Betsy Beneke (BetsyBeneke@lakesnet.net)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)

This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, September 15th sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Lakes Area Birding Club. You may also hear this report by calling 1-800-433-1888 or (218) 847-5743.

Everyone is encouraged to share interesting sightings from Northwestern Minnesota. Please report them by Thursday noon to: Betsy Beneke (218) 847-2641 betsybeneke@lakesnet.net 1-800-542-3992

Many migrants continue to make their way through our area with flickers, bluebirds, sparrows, blackbirds, gulls, pelicans, cormorants, hawks and swallows being reported.

On a field trip to the Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge in Becker Co. on the 11th, members of the Lakes Area Birding Club found only three shorebird species; MARBLED GODWIT, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and KILLDEER. Highlights of the trip were a couple of LE CONTE'S SPARROWS, a pair of WILD TURKEYS, a flock of AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS and a number of GREAT EGRETS.

Large numbers of FRANKLIN'S GULLS were migrating through Becker County late this week, with numbers in the thousands around lakes in the Detroit Lakes area on the 15th and 16th.

On September 14th, Kay Hartness found a pair of SANDHILL CRANES in a field on the west side of Height of Land Lake in Becker Co.

Mary Wyatt, southeast of Detroit Lakes in Becker Co., had NASHVILLE WARBLERS on the 16th.

At the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in Becker Co., the season's first DARK-EYED JUNCO was seen on the 14th, small flocks of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS were present on the 15th, and on the 16th EVENING GROSBEAKS and singing PINE WARBLERS were seen at the picnic area along the Otter Tail River. Six immature BALD EAGLES were also in that same area - perhaps some of the 23 birds that fledged from refuge nests this year.

RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH numbers are starting to build - Shar Legenhausen found one on the 13th and more were observed at Tamarac on the 15th and 16th.

A late report from Maggie Anderson of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, MERLIN and GREAT EGRET came from the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in Marshall County on the 8th.

Thanks to everyone who shared sightings this week. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, September 22nd.

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