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*March 14, 2002
*MNDU0203.14

-Birds mentioned

• Long-tailed Duck
• Bald Eagle
• Cooper's Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• Merlin
• Thayer's Gull
• Glaucous Gull
• American Robin
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Common Redpoll

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: March 14, 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 14, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

More spring bird activity has been apparent this week, with several sightings of MERLINS and AMERICAN ROBINS singing.

The West Skyline Hawkwatch saw good flights each of the past two days, with two-day totals of 273 BALD EAGLES, 1 COOPER'S HAWK, 2 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 8 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 16 GOLDEN EAGLES, and 1 UNIDENTIFIED ACCIPITER, for a total of 301 raptors.

BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS and COMMON REDPOLLS are common in Duluth again.

The number of gulls at the Superior Landfill has dropped again, but there are still THAYER'S GULLS, and GLAUCOUS GULLS present.

The LONG-TAILED DUCK that has been here all winter was still present on the 10th. Barb Adams had a partial-albino House Finch at her feeder this week. An unidentified swan has been in the open water behind WLSSD this week.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, March 21. 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.

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