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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *March 7, 2002 *MNDU0203.07 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: March 7, 2002
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
Transcriber: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for March 7, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Peder Svingen surveyed the gulls at the Superior Landfill on the 2nd. Along with a first-year GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL, he found over a thousand HERRING GULLS, 17 GLAUCOUS GULLS, three THAYER'S GULLS, one ICELAND GULL, and one Iceland/Thayer's intergrade.
Through last week, the West Skyline Hawk Watch in Duluth had tallied 93 BALD EAGLES, 12 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 2 GOLDEN EAGLES, 1 COOPER'S HAWK, and 1 SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.
The three WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS that have been here all winter long were still present this week. At least two SNOWY OWLS are still in the Duluth Harbor, where they have been seen most consistently along Highway 35. Don Kienholz is still seeing two HOARY REDPOLLS at his feeder. A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on Monday near the jct. of Cty Rds 16 and 110. A NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL was heard on the West Knife River Road on the 1st.
In Cook County, NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS are calling at many locations. NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are still being seen along the Gunflint Trail, including across from the Gunflint Pines Resort on Cty Rd 50. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS and COMMON REDPOLLS are abundant in Grand Marais. A dead SNOWY OWL was found on the 4th at Paradise Beach.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, March 14. 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, 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 mou@biosci.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.
