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*Minnesota Statewide
*April 6, 2000
*MNST0004.06

-Birds mentioned

• Common Loon
• Horned Grebe
• Western Grebe
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Tundra Swan
• Trumpeter Swan
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Goshawk
• American Avocet
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Baird's Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Common Snipe
• American Woodcock
• Short-eared Owl
• Northern Flicker
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Marsh Wren
• Fox Sparrow
• GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 6, 2000
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@uswest.net)

This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday April 6th, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

Note that this hotline now has a new area code, that is 763.

Because of time constraints, information reported to the hotline may be edited or omitted, but all contributions are included in our permanent records.

A record early WESTERN GREBE was found March 30th at Thielke Lake in Big Stone County. On a Fargo-Moorhead Audubon trip to Traverse County on April 1st, Colin Gjervold found five HORNED GREBES along the east side of Mud Lake.

Two remarkably early AMERICAN AVOCETS were found by Bruce Fall on March 31st at Salt Lake in Lac Qui Parle County. Three record-early LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen April 1st in a slough south of Lake Shaokatan in Lincoln County. Three BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were found in Lac Qui Parle County on the 2nd. And a group of 24 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS were found on March 31st in a wetland just south of the Highway 75 Dam in Lac Qui Parle County. Other shorebirds reported recently include GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, and COMMON SNIPE.

Paul Budde reported that GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES were back at Grover's Lake in Jackson County on the 1st, along the Minnesora-Iowa border.

Joe Miller reported a NORTHERN GOSHAWK in his western St. Paul yard on the 3rd.

Michael Tarachow found a MARSH WREN at the Old Cedar Avenue Birdge in Bloomington, Hennepin County on the 1st.

Kraig Kelsey reported the first PURPLE MARTINS of the year on April 6th from his home in White Bear Lake.

Two SHORT-EARED OWLS were seen on the 1st just east of U.S. Highway 75, on a Nature Conservancy tract in the northwest part of Lac Qui Parle County.

Other reports include sightings of COMMON LOON, GREAT BLUE HERON, GREAT EGRET, TRUMPETER SWAN, TUNDRA SWAN, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN FLICKER, TREE SWALLOW, and FOX SPARROW.

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The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday April 13th.

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