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*September 8, 2005
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-Birds mentioned

• Common Loon
• Great Egret
• Tundra Swan
• Trumpeter Swan
• Common Merganser
• Sharp-tailed Grouse
• Wild Turkey
• Black-bellied Plover
• Marbled Godwit
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Common Tern
• Great Gray Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Common Raven
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Eastern Bluebird
• Cedar Waxwing
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Cape May Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• American Redstart
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Common Yellowthroat
• Wilson's Warbler
• Canada Warbler
• Northern Cardinal
• Purple Finch

Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes
Date: September 8, 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 Friday, September 9, 2005 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.

Autumn color is starting to show in the northwest, and migration is in full swing now. Frost has avoided us so far , and gardeners are hoping for a couple more weeks of warm weather to finish off all those vegetables that had to be planted late.

Pat Rice reports that the Carolina Wren coming to her backyard birdbath was still visiting on September 2nd. You can find out what its current status in by calling Pat at 218-751-0137 .

Kim Eckert lead a Minnesota Birding Weekend from Roseau over the Labor Day Weekend. That group, birding in warm, windy weather found 151 species including 18 species of shorebirds ( mostly at Roseau River WMA) and 18 species of warblers. In Lake of the Woods County, they observed COMMON MERGANSER, COMMON LOON, COMMON TERN, and NORTHERN CARDINAL among many others.

In Roseau County, the Eckert group reported TUNDRA SWAN, SHARP-TAILED GROUSE, GREAT EGRET, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at the Warroad wastewater treatment ponds, 12 SHORT-EARED OWLS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, and BAY-BREASTED WARBLER among others.

Larry Wilebski in Kittson County saw GREAT EGRET, RED-EYED VIREO, TENNESSEE WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, OVENBIRD, and CANADA WARBLER on his property near Lancaster this week.

Shelley Steva saw a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER in Red Lake County on September 8 about 2.5 miles east of the intersection of CR 1 and US 59.

In southern Polk County, Bruce Flaig reported many CEDAR WAXWINGS in the town of Fertile on September 7th, and twelve TRUMPETER SWANS sunbathing along CR 12 near Fertile. Melissa Galland saw a GREAT GRAY OWL along MN 92 near Trail in eastern Polk County on September 2nd.

Pat Rice reported from Beltrami County that she saw more than 100 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 50-75 COMMON MERGANSERS on Lake Bemidji on August 30. She had COMMON RAVEN, AMERICAN REDSTART, and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in the county on September 2.

On September 5, Mark Otnes found a large mixed flock of warblers and vireos at Dunton Locks County Park in Becker County . Among them were 17 species of warblers including BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, and WILSON'S WARBLER.

Ben Fritchman did some birding in Clay County on September 6. At Riverside Cemetery in north Moorhead, he found eight WILD TURKEYS, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and PURPLE FINCH. At Gooseberry Park, he reported YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, EASTERN PHOEBE, RED-EYED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING, and nine species of warbler including TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, and WILSON'S WARBLER.

Thanks to Ben Fritchman, Mark Otnes, Pat Rice, Melissa Galland, Larry Wilebski, Kim Eckert, Shelley Steva, and Bruce Flaig for their reports.

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, September 16, 2005.

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