Duluth RBA
Duluth RBA
Duluth RBA
|
Previous reports: November
26
, December
4
11
18
20
27
, January
1
8
15
22
.
Other Hotlines: Minnesota Statewide | Detroit Lakes
-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *January 29, 2004 *MNDU0401.29 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: January 29, 2004
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 Thursday, January 29, 2004, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Jeanette Lang reported a SPOTTED TOWHEE in Duluth this week. The bird moves around the neighborhood along the alley in the 2300 block east, between 2nd and 3rd streets. Jeanette saw it on Saturday and Sunday, but apparently neighbors have seen the bird for several weeks.
A VARIED THRUSH has been seen in the town of Palisade in Aitkin Cty. From the gas station on the north side of main street, head north on 4th. At the end of this street, bear left. Eventually this road bends right. At the bend there is a white house with two fake human figures on the porch. The bird is coming to feeders at this house. John Richardson found it there on the 22nd, and Herb Dingmann saw it again on the 24th.
Tom Auer saw the GYRFALCON on the 23rd at 2:15 pm. It was perched on the Peavey Elevators in Superior. Tom also saw a SNOWY OWL perched on the river ice beneath the Bong Bridge. Jim Lind refound the first-winter ICELAND GULL at Agate Bay in Two Harbors on the 24th. The GLAUCOUS GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, and LONG-TAILED DUCK were also still present.
Several observers saw GREAT GRAY OWLS along Cty Rd 18 in Aitkin Cty this week. Warren Nelson found three on the 24th, two wer a half mile west of Pietz's Rd, and the other was 0.2 mile east of the Hebron Cemetery.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Wednesday, February 4th.
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.
