Duluth RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *August 20, 1998 *MNDU9808.20 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Duluth/North Shore
Date: August 20, 1998
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Beverly Raway (braway@css.edu)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
This is the Duluth Birding Report for August 20 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
After several weeks of relatively little birding news in Duluth and vicinity, things have finally become a bit more interesting lately with good numbers of warblers and other migrants being seen by various observers. The most interesting species of these has been the RED CROSSBILL which has been seen twice on the 1900 block of Kent Road near the UMD campus. A singing male was present there on August 12 and on the 17th both a male and female were present. This is the first sighting of the species in northeastern Minnesota that I am aware of since last winter. White-winged Crossbills had been seen in several locations in late June and early July here, although none have been reported since then.
Another noteworthy find was the SCARLET TANAGER banded at the Hawk Ridge Banding Station yesterday by Dave Grosshuesch. He also reports good numbers of warblers at Hawk Ridge recently, although the annual hawk count which began at the Ridge last weekend has only had a handful of raptors so far. Several other obvservers have also commented on the good numbers of warblers passing through Duluth and elsewhere this week. For example, in one small yard on the 1900 block of Kent Road, 10 species of warblers were seen on August 17 including several CAPE MAY WARBLERS and a few BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS. Small numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen in Duluth on the evenings of August 10 and 16. Although no large flight has been reported yet, it is expected this will occur here later this week or next.
Finally, in early August it was reported that the water impoundment at the 40th Avenue West Erie Pier area was virtually dried up, but fortunately there is now at least some water there since on August 17 Brandy Mansfield found some SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, YELLOWLEGS, and several peeps in the southeastern corner of the impoundment.
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