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-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *May 31, 2005 *MNDL0505.31 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: May 31, 2005
Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours)
Compiler: Jeanie Joppru (ajjoppru@wiktel.com)
This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Wednesday, June 1 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888.
Summer seems to have come now but started with cool rain. As of this writing it feels like summer with more seasonal temperatures, and sounds like summer as the resident species have returned, and we are seeing fewer migrants. Will we still see the ones we have looked for all these weeks, or did they pass us by altogether? Only time will tell.
I have no reports that indicate that the CINNAMON TEAL that was reported in Mahnomen County on Friday has been seen since Saturday. I was unable to find it on Monday afternoon. Both SAY'S PHOEBES were still present at Felton Prairie in Clay County as of May 30 at the gravel pit where the ROCK WREN is being seen.
Mary Broten reported a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK at her feeder in Marshall County on May 29. She lives 12 miles N of Thief River Falls on Hwy 59 and 1/8 mile west then south down the drive way 1/4 mile. Feeders are on south side of the blue house.
In Kittson County, Kim Eckert's Minnesota Birding Weekend Reunion group found GREEN HERON, COOPER'S HAWK, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, a pair of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, ten species of warblers, and ORCHARD ORIOLE among others.
The MBW group found lots of species in Marshall County on the weekend. Some of them were COMMON LOON , LEAST BITTERN, BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, SHORT-EARED OWL, WHIP-POOR-WILL, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, LE CONTE'S SPARROW, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, and ORCHARD ORIOLE.
On her way to the Minnesota Birding Weekend, Nancy Jackson found three HUDSONIAN GODWITS in a field about three miles south of Thief River Falls in Pennington County. Kim Eckert's group found several shorebirds at the Thief River Falls wastewater treatment ponds on the weekend including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, and both WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Flycatchers have returned to Pennington County as I heard both EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, and GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER in the yard on May 31. Bob Russell counted 3200 CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Thief River Falls wastewater treatment ponds on May 26.
A LEAST BITTERN was reported in Polk County by Bob Russell 1.7 miles west of Mentor along CR 45. The MBW group found a YELLOW RAIL along MN 32 near the Dugdale WMA on May 30. Another interesting species was the NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW found at Glacial Ridge NWR on May 30. The bird was seen along the gravel road that leads south from the gravel office on the left fork about a half mile from the office in the first fenced pasture. Several GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS were found along a gravel road that goes south of US 2 three miles west of MN 32.
On May 30, in Mahnomen County while looking for the cinnamon teal I found a TRUMPETER SWAN, 6 COMMON LOONS, and a RED-NECKED GREBE.
Bob Russell found both PINE SISKIN and EVENING GROSBEAK in Becker County this weekend along CR 113 in the northern part of the county. Sally Hausken reported 12 CATTLE EGRETS in section 4 of Cormorant township on May 27, and GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, and INDIGO BUNTING on May 28.
At Felton Prairie, Clay County, on May 30, Joel Dunnette found a singing BELL'S VIREO. Roland Jordahl reported RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, BROWN THRASHER, and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at that location on May 28. Connie Norheim found several species of warblers at Gooseberry Park on May 27 but could not relocate the Connecticut Warbler that had been seen there earlier.
Heidi Ferguson found UPLAND SANDPIPER and MARBLED GODWITS in Wilkin County on the weekend.
>From Otter Tail County, Connie Norheim reported COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at Franklin Lake on May 30. Roland Jordahl observed SCARLET TANAGER, and INDIGO BUNTING in that county on May 28.
Susan Wiste reported NORTHERN CARDINAL, and INDIGO BUNTING in Douglas County on May 31.
Thanks to all who sent in reports this week. The next report will be on Friday, June 10 but if you have any "hot" sightings during the interval please send or call them in to either the statewide MOU hotline or the Duluth hotline.
Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, June 10, 2005.
