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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *March 7, 2002 *MNST0203.07 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: March 7, 2002
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 March 7th, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Kay Hartness reports that a VARIED THRUSH is still coming to her residence on the east side of Cotton Lake in Becker County.
A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE is still present in Minneapolis, Hennepin County. This is at the north end of Lake of the Isles. Please call the statewide birding report for specific directions. The bird can be seen from the driveway and was present as recently as the 7th. Two Townsend's Solitaires were apparently heard at the Miller-Richter Wildlife Management Area in Yellow Medicine County on March 6th. No information was given as to how the birds were identified or if they were eventually seen. The WMA is located one and a half miles west of the intersection of state highway 67 and county road 11.
Three NORTHERN HAWK OWLS can still be found along the Gunflint Trail in Cook County. One is near mile post 45; one is a quarter of a mile east of the Trail on Cook County Road 46; and one was at the Gunflint Pines Resort on Cook County Road 50.
A SNOWY OWL was in Duluth, St. Louis County on the 3rd. It was found on the lake side of west Railroad Street.
As many as a hundred BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were in Grand Marais, Cook County on the 5th at the corner of 1st & 3rd.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE was near Hastings in Dakota County on the 5th. It was found at the Spring Lake Nature Preserve. I also have several reports of MOURNING DOVE, HORNED LARK, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, and COMMON GRACKLE.
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