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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *April 28, 2004 *MNST0404.28 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 28, 2004
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Wednesday April 28th.
A WHITE-FACED IBIS was on the west side of Lake Osakis in Douglas County on the 25th and it was still being reported from there as recently as yesterday. It is on the west side of Douglas County Road 10 about one and a quarter miles northeast of Douglas County Road 3. Just under a mile south of this location a CATTLE EGRET was reported on the 22nd, and a CLARK'S GREBE has been reported from this lake as well near the Todd County line. Check the public access in the town of Osakis.
A SNOWY EGRET was seen in central Otter Tail County on the 28th. The location is across from a Waterfowl Production Area, one and a quarter miles east of the town of Underwood on Otter Tail County Road 122. Three Snowy Egrets were on the east side of Thielke Lake in Big Stone County on the same day.
Interesting was the ROSS'S GOOSE at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Hennepin County. It was seen there on the 25th. What may have been the same bird was on a ball field at Normandale Community College in Bloomington on the 22nd. And a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was on Snelling Lake at Fort Snelling State Park in Hennepin County on the 24th.
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH have returned to several of their traditional breeding grounds in southeastern Minnesota, including the Whitewater Wildlife Management Area in Wabasha and Winona counties. Two pair were along the Trout Run Trail on the 21st. Others have been heard at Beaver Creek Valley State Park in Houston County.
The list of other recent arrivals reported in the past week is to long to mention all of them here, but include AMERICAN BITTERN, GREEN HERON, SORA, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, WILLET, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, CHIMNEY SWIFT, WARBLING VIREO, MARSH WREN, SEDGE WREN, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW.
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