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-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *September 10, 1998 *MNDU9809.10 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Duluth/North Shore
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, September 10, sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The birding in Duluth and vicinity
continues to be as eventful as it was last week, and of particular interest
were sightings of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, PARASITIC JAEGER, LONG-EARED OWL
and BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER.
On September 6, a juvenile LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was carefully
identified at the 40th Avenue West Erie Pier area along with five other
species of shorebirds. As mentioned on last week's tape, the main pool at
40th is dry, but there is a smaller area with water and mudflats to the
right or southwest of the main pool.
Karl Bardon of the Twin Cities saw two adult light-morph PARASITIC JAEGERS
on September 7. One of these was on the Minnesota side of the Superior
Entry breakwaters at the southern tip of Park Point, and the other was at
Gull Bluff which is just east of the Superior landfill at the southern end of
Wisconsin Point.
On the same day, Karl also had an excellent concentration of eighteen species
of warblers in the trees at the 40th Avenue West area.
On September 8, a LONG-EARED OWL was unexpectedly seen at the Hawk Ridge
Banding Station, but the banders were unable to net it.
And an early migrant BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was seen at Stoney Point
September 6.
Other birds of interest reported recently include SWAINSON'S HAWK
migrating past Hawk Ridge on September 4 and 5, a SANDHILL CRANE at
the Ridge September 7, the first migrant AMERICAN PIPIT and
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in Duluth also on the 7th, and some LAPLAND
LONGSPURS at the Park Point Recreation Area yesterday.
The hawk flight the past few days over Hawk Ridge has been on the
slow side, but there was a good flight September 6 with a total of
2576, which included 1275 BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 788 SHARP-SHINNED
HAWK, 349 AMERICAN KESTREL, 68 NORTHERN HARRIER, 36 OSPREY and 27
BALD EAGLE.
The flight at the Ridge should be good tomorrow, the 11th, with northwest
winds and cooler temperatures in the forecast, but the wind forecast for
Saturday and Sunday is still unclear.
Finally, note that our annual Hawk Weekend activities will be next
weekend, September 18, 19 and 20, with 7:00 am birding field trips
to various locations in Duluth both Saturday and Sunday, nature
hikes at Hawk Ridge also on both Saturday and Sunday, and programs
at the UMD Chemistry Department Auditorium, Room 200, both Friday
and Saturday evenings beginning at 8:00 pm. Be sure to note that
this is a change of location from previous years. The best place
to park would be Parking Lot B off College Street on the south side
of the UMD Campus and follow the signs to Chemistry 200. For more
information about this weekend, either give me a call @ 525-6930
or call Dave Benson @ 728-5812.
Unless something unusual is seen in the meantime which needs to be reported
on immediately, the next scheduled update of this tape will be Thursday,
September 17.
[Send your rare and unusual Minnesota sightings to our electronic
hotline:MnRBA. To learn more about it
send a message ( the message being these two words: info end) to
mnrba-request@linux.winona.msus.edu
Sightings can be called in directly to the tape by phoning (218) 525-5952
and leaving a message after the tone at the end of the tape.]
Date: September 10, 1998
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Catherine Severin, MnBird Volunteer
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
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