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*October 22, 2003
*MNDU0310.22

-Birds mentioned

• Red-throated Loon
• Long-tailed Duck
• Black Scoter
• Surf Scoter
• White-winged Scoter
• Thayer's Gull
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Townsend's Solitaire
• SAGE THRASHER
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Northern Cardinal
• Field Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Le Conte's Sparrow
• Western Meadowlark

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: October 22, 2003
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 728-5030
Compiler: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)
Transcriber: David R. Benson (drbenson@cpinternet.com)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Wednesday, October 22, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A SAGE THRASHER found by Kim Eckert on Friday the 17th was still being seen in the Grand Marais campground as of Tuesday afternoon. The bird has been in the area between the picnic shelter on the lake and the swimming pool parking lot.

Other Cook County birds this week included a first-winter THAYER'S GULL in Grand Marais, 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at the mouth of the Cascade River, a FIELD SPARROW at the Lutsen Sea Villas, and a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Grand Portage National Monument. Jonas Benson and I saw a very late PHILADELPHIA VIREO at Grand Portage on the 20th, and Mike Hendrickson reported a BLUE-HEADED VIREO from Hovlund on the 19th.

Basic plumage RED-THROATED LOONS were reported from Flood Bay on the 18th and Stoney Point on the 19th.

Keith Pulles reported a BLACK SCOTER from Park Point on the 18th, and another was at Paradise Beach on the 19th. Kim Eckert reported three SURF SCOTERS from Good Harbor Bay on the 18th, and three were still there on the 21st. WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were seen this week at several locations between Duluth and the Canadian border.

In Two Harbors, a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was at the lake walk on the 18th, a VESPER SPARROW was near the tugboat, and a LE CONTE'S SPARROW and two WESTERN MEADOWLARKS were reported.

Jim Barrett reported a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER in Morgan Park on the 16th. Gordy Martinson had a NORTHERN CARDINAL at his feeder in Lakewood Township this week.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday,October 30th.

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.

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