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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *November 26, 2003 *MNDU0311.26 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: November 26, 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, November 26th, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Karl Bardon reported 3000 HERRING GULLS in Grand Marais on the 21st, and among them, he found one first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL and two first-winter THAYER'S GULLS. Karl counted 1009 COMMON REDPOLLS on the morning of the 21st along the North Shore; on the same morning, I counted 1350 redpolls flying past Grand Portage National Monument. Sue McDonnell reported lots of redpolls around Grand Marais today.
John Eaton reported that he has had a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE in his yard two miles east of Two Harbors for over a week. Chris Sterner reported a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER near the building at Hartley Nature Center over the weekend.
In Superior, WI, Karl Bardon also found a hybrid Glaucous X Herring, or Nelson's Gull at the landfill. Laura Erickson had a very late PINE WARBLER coming to her feeder in the Lakeside neighborhood of Duluth until the 20th.
The Duluth Christmas Bird Count will be held on Saturday, December 20th. People interested in participating should contact Jim Lind at jslind@frontiernet.net. The Two Harbors Christmas Bird Count will be held on Sunday, December 14th. For information about this count, you can contact Jim Lind or Frank Nicoletti at bjboreal@aol.com.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, December 4th.
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.
