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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *November 16, 2000 *MNST0011.16 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: November 16, 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 November 16th, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
On November 10th an ibis was reported from Grant County, about three miles east and a quarter mile north of the town of Herman. This ibis was not refound the following day and the description does not identify it to the species level, but regardless of whether this was a Glossy or a White-faced ibis, this is the latest date on record for the state.
Dave Sovereign reported collecting a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on Star Lake in northern Otter Tail County on the 11th.
In Duluth, two PACIFIC LOONS were seen together on November 15th on Lake Superior just off the Lakewalk near the London Road Perkins Restaurant. Pacific Loons have been seen for several weeks at various points between Duluth and Two Harbors.
A late BALTIMORE ORIOLE has been coming to a feeder in Todd County at Laitmer Lake, three miles south of Long Prairie. This immature bird was most recently reported on November 11th.
There was a very late AMERICAN AVOCET at the Weaver Bottoms, about a mile southeast of the town of Weaver on U.S. highway 61 in Wabasha County, on November 11th.
On November 11th a first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL was roosting on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. Also present was an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, which has been seen regularly in the evenings on the lake since mid-October.
A GREAT GRAY OWL was about eight miles north of the town of Tamarack on Aitkin County road 64 on the 9th.
On the 10th Leslie Kottke had a single HARRIS'S SPARROW at her feeder in Rochester, Olmsted County. It was in the company of several FOX SPARROWS and WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and three TUFTED TITMICE.
Most unusual was the report of a small white egret on the 9th at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County. The incomplete description indicates this was either a Snowy Egret or an immature Cattle Egret.
On the 13th a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER was seen on the trail going beneath the new Cedar Avenue bridge in Bloomington, Hennepin County.
And finally, many people are reporting an increase in migrant TUNDRA SWANS, and I have also have a report of a late group of SANDHILL CRANES that passed over a Circle Pines neighborhood in Anoka County on the 16th.
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The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday November 23rd. -- Anthony X. Hertzel Note new e-mail address: ahertzel@qwest.net
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