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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *June 21, 2001 *MNDU0106.21 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: June 21, 2001
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, June 21, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
As is typical at this time of year, little birding news has been reported in northeastern Minn recently, even though June is when out-of-state birders are here looking for northern specialties. Among the few reports received are recent sightings of GREAT GRAY OWLS, SHORT-EARED OWLS, BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, and BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS.
The mockingbird was reported by Jim Lind June 17 in Tofte, Cook Co, behind the Holiday gas station. It had apparently been present there for several days, so it is possibly still in the area.
A recent Great Gray Owl report comes from Sparky Stensaas who has seen one several times at dusk in the Sax-Zim Bog along Co Rd 7, between 1 and 1.5 mi N of Sax. There was also a Great Gray sighting yesterday by Ken Hollinga in Lake Co along Co Rd 2, 0.7 mi N of the Greenwood L public access.
Sparky has also seen a pair of Black-backed Woodpeckers this week in Carlton Co: look along the Ditchbank Rd 1 and 1/2 mi W of Co Rd 7 (Co Rd 7 turns N off Minn Hwy 210 at Sawyer, and the Ditchbank Rd turns W off 7, 3.5 mi N of 210).
Warren Nelson has seen Short-eared Owls this month along Aitkin Co Rd 1 N of Aitkin, and along Twp Rd 380, 3 mi W of Aitkin Co Rd 5. And just this morning Ben Yokel saw a Short-eared in the Sax-Zim Bog area along Co Rd 16, 2.5 mi E of Co Rd 5.
Warren also reports several Yellow-bellied Flycatchers and Connecticut Warblers (and an occasional Great Gray Owl) are present along Aitkin Co Rd 18, between U S Hwy 169 and Pietz's Rd (which is 4 mi E of 169).
Finally, Mike Steffes reports that Black-throated Blue Warblers can still be found at several locations along the Superior Hiking Trail. Perhaps the most accessible spots to see them are along the service road on the W side of Tettegouche State Park in Lake Co and at Oberg Mt in Cook Co.
Because I will be out of town next Thursday, the next update of this report will be on Friday, June 29. It is hoped this update will include more news on the species listed above, with perhaps some sightings of Sharp-tailed Grouse, Yellow Rail, N Hawk Owl, Three-toed Woodpecker, Philadelphia Vireo or Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow -- all of which were seen in NE Minn earlier in June.
The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 525-5952, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. Messages can also be left without having to wait for the report to end: to do this, after the tape starts playing push 5 on a touch-tone phone, the tape will stop, the tone will sound, and you can then leave your message.
The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota
Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more
information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum of Natural
History,10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to
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