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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *December 2, 2004 *MNST0412.02 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: December 2, 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 Thursday, December 2nd.
The selasphorus hummingbird continues to visit the feeders at Laura Erickson's home in east Duluth. The bird was seen as recently as December 2nd. Laura's address is 4831 Peabody St.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS continue to be seen across northeastern Minnesota. The Sax-Zim bog area seems to be one of the better places to look. Check there along St. Louis County Road 7 between County Roads 52 and 319; along County Road 133 west of U.S. Highway 53; and along the various county and forest roads south of the town of Hoyt Lakes.
On December 2nd, Manley Olson had a VARIED THRUSH visit his yard in Falcon Heights, Ramsey County. His address is 1974 West Summer Street, which is just southeast of the community park at Cleveland and Roselawn Avenues.
Two EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES were in the backyard of Steve Hettig of Olivia in Renville County on November 25th. This is along the 400 block of South Second Street.
On the 2nd, as many as twenty-thousand COMMON MERGANSERS were estimated to be on the Mississippi River at mile post 71 of U.S. Highway 61, about three miles below the Wild Wings wildlife art store in Wabasha. Five to six thousand TUNDRA SWANS were were seen at mile post 10 along state highway 26 in Houston County on the 29th.
An adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was at Lake Calhoun in Hennepin County on November 27th, as was 1st-winter GLAUCOUS GULL. A first-winter Glaucous Gull was seen at Agate Bay in Two Harbors, Lake County on the 28th. And an adult Glaucous Gull was on the break wall at Canal Park in Duluth on the 25th.
And finally, Beth Johnson reports both RED CROSSBILL and WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL were recently seen in her yard in Alexandria in Douglas County.
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