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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *January 9, 2003 *MNDU0301.09 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: January 9, 2003
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 fo r Thursday, January 9th, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Alison Clarke had a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE in her yard in East Duluth on the 4th. On the same day, Jim Barrett found another Solitaire in Two Harbors. Also last weekend, several observers reported a flock of 300-400 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS from Tofte, mixed with a smaller number of CEDAR WAXWINGS.
There were several sightings of GREAT GRAY OWL in Aitkin Cty over the weekend, some of which were close enough together that they may have been the same bird. These include at the jct of Hwys 65 and 27, at the south end of the minimum maintenance road 1.5 miles east of the jct of 65 and 27, and 1.5 miles east and 3 miles east of the jct of 65 and 27. Another bird was seen on Cty Rd 4, 4 miles west of Hwy 65.
SPRUCE GROUSE were reported on the 3rd along Hwy 1 between mile markers 301 and 302, approximately five miles northwest of the jct with Cty Rd 2. Kim Eckert reported another bird on Cty Rd 2, 2.5 miles north of the Sand River. A THREE-TOED WOODPECKER and a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER were seen again on the Spruce Road 0.2 of a mile north of Endless Waters Rd (This is .6 of a mile from Hwy 1. EVENING GROSBEAKS are still being seen in Isabella.
In Duluth, that NORTHERN PINTAIL was still present with the MALLARDS and AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS at the corner of the lake, and the WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was still on the lake off 21st Ave E on the 4th. There are over 2,000 gulls at the Superior, Wisconsin landfill, including at least 1 ICELAND GULL, 2 THAYER'S GULLS, and 1 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. Apparently none of these birds has wandered to Duluth yet. My thanks to Kim Eckert for reporting most of the sightings above.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, January 16.
The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape.
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@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.
