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*December 30, 1999
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Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: December 30, 1999
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 525-5952
Compiler: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Transcriber: Kim Eckert (kreckert@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, December 30th, 1999, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

[As callers to the tape-recorded Birding Report are aware, there have been some technical problems with the message difficult to hear at times. If this situation does not improve, the machine may have to be repaired and the taped birding report would be temporarily out of service. If this happens, however, birding information would still be available from the Twin Cites birding report at 612-780-8890 or toll free at 800-657-3700. It will also still be posted on MOU-net, the listserve of the Minn. Ornithologists' Union, and on the MOU's website. You can also call me, Dave Benson 218-728-5812 or Mike Hendrickson at 218-626-2268.]

There is little birding news this week, with one new GREAT GRAY OWL report, plus a couple of reports of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS. This report also contains updates on some earlier sightings.

The most recent GREAT GRAY OWL sighting was today in Aitkin County along Hwy 200 1 mile W of Jacobson.

Over the past two weeks, GREAT GRAY OWLS have been reported from a number of locations, but I have no reports of anyone finding owls at these spots this week. These locations include Aitkin Co Rd 18; in the Sax-Zim Bog, near the intersection of St Louis Co Rds 29 and 204, and at the jct of Co Rds 52 and Owl Ave (Co Rd 203), and on Co Rd 7, 2.4 mi N of Sax, and in Duluth, along Rice Lake Rd near the airport and on the Archery Club Road which turns W off Eagle Lake Rd between Eagle L and Lismore Rd. Another Great Gray was seen along St Louis Co Rd 110, about 3 mi E of Hoyt Lakes.

The previously reported NORTHERN HAWK OWL, which was first seen on Dec 13, was relocated on Dec 22, but several birders have tried and missed it this week. Hopefully it will turn up again, but it may have moved on. The location is in central St Louis Co along MN Hwy 135, about 1 mi W of Biwabik near the railroad overpass.

The SNOWY OWL on the Dec 18 Duluth CBC was seen again this week on the bay ice between the Port Terminal and Park Point, and it is hoped that this owl will remain in the area during the coming weeks.

BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen this week in Two Harbors, along 3rd Ave., and in the campground at Jay Cooke State Park, south of Duluth.

That amazing CAPE MAY WARBLER from the Duluth CBC was still surviving as of late last week at the Plagemann feeder at 5101 North Shore Dr. This feeder is at the corner of Scenic Hwy 61 and 96th Ave E, and Mr Plagemann has said he welcomes birders to his yard to look for it -- although the feeder is visible from the road.

And finally, a CAROLINA WREN has been coming to a feeder near Twig since early December. However, it is not possible for birders to visit the feeder at this time.

Unless something unusual is seen in the meantime which needs to be reported immediately, the Duluth Birding Report is normally updated once a week on Thursdays, so that the next scheduled update will be on January 6th. The phone number is (218) 525-5952, and callers can leave a message if they wish after the tone at the end of the tape. Also note that a message can be left without having to wait for the birding report to end: after the tape starts playing, push 5 on a touch-tone phone, the tape will then stop, the tone will sound and you can leave your message.

The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU), the state bird club, 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 S E, Minneapolis MN 55455, or visit the MOU web site at .



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