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*Detroit Lakes
*October 27, 2000
*MNDL0010.27

-Birds mentioned

• Common Loon
• Great Egret
• Green-winged Teal
• Mallard
• Gadwall
• American Wigeon
• Ring-necked Duck
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Harrier
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Sandhill Crane
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Franklin's Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• Snowy Owl
• Great Gray Owl
• Black-billed Magpie
• Marsh Wren
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Eastern Bluebird
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Northern Cardinal
• American Tree Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• Harris's Sparrow
• Snow Bunting
• Purple Finch
• Evening Grosbeak

Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: October 27, 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, October 27th sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Lakes Area Birding Club. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888.

>From Jake's Resort and the Angle Inlet area of Lake of the Woods, Celeste Colson reported COMMON LOON, GREAT GRAY OWL, EVENING GROSBEAK and SNOW BUNTING this past week.

A SNOWY OWL was observed by Jeff Birchem on the 21st at the north boundary of the Red Lake WMA, approximately 4 miles SW of Norris Camp in Lake of the Woods County.

At the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge this week, birds noted were COMMON LOON, RING-BILLED GULL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, large numbers of RING-NECKED DUCKS, (approximately 29,000 counted on the 25th), ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, MARSH WREN, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, HARRIS'S SPARROW, SNOW BUNTING & good numbers of PURPLE FINCH.

At the Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge on the 28th, 5 GREAT EGRETS were still present, along with large numbers of GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, MALLARD and a few GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Also present were 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER, AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, and HARRIS'S SPARROWS.

Other interesting birds noted in Becker County this week were 3 SANDHILL CRANES and an BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE along CR 21 north of Detroit Lakes, a pair of NORTHERN CARDINALS at the feeders of Jim & Joyce Holter on Floyd Lake, north of Detroit Lakes and numerous reports of AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS.

Thanks also to Sally Hausken, Mary Wyatt & Lowell Deede for reports.

If you have interesting sightings from northwestern Minnesota, please report them by Thursday each week. Contact:

betsybeneke@lakesnet.net 1-800-542-3992 (Chamber of Commerce)

The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, November 2nd.

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