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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *April 7, 2005 *MNST0504.07 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 7, 2005
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, April 7th.
As of April 1st, the gray-morph GYRFALCON was still in northeastern Dakota County. It was most recently reported by Judy Sparrow at mile marker 215 of state highway 55.
On April 5th, Dan Thimgan reported a PRAIRIE FALCON along Wilkin County Road 26, about four miles west and one mile south of the town of Rothsay. This is about four miles south of where John Ellis reported a Prairie Falcon on the 3rd.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are still easy to find across northern Minnesota, especially in Aitkin County and Pine County. Many observers still report finding multiple Great Gray Owls along Aitkin County Roads 1 and 4 and in Pine County east of the town of Sandstone.
On April 2nd, Al Schirmacher reported a ROSS'S GOOSE at the Princeton sewage ponds in Sherburne County. The ponds are located on county road 2. Another Ross's Goose was seen on the 3rd at Ocheda Lake along the east side of Nobles County Road 57, a quarter of a mile north of 290th Street.
A EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was in Herman, Grant County, on the 3rd. Denny and Barb Martin reported it at the corner of 1st Street East and Berlin Avenue South.
The usual variety of early shorebirds have begun to arrive in southern Minnesota. Jim Mattsson had both GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS plus BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Lake Byllesby in Dakota County on the 6th. MARBLED GODWITS were reported by Melissa Driscoll from Wilkin County on the 5th. On the same day, Kim Eckert found AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at the Pipestone sewage ponds in Pipestone County. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were reported from the Albany sewage lagoons in Stearns County on the 5th. Greater Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, and Baird's Sandpipers were also reported from Stearns, Lyon, and Cottonwood counties.
Tom Nelson found an early PALM WARBLER near the southwest corner of Deep Lake in North Oaks, Ramsey County, on the 5th. Other migrants reported in the past week include BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, OSPREY, BONAPARTE'S GULL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, WINTER WREN, VESPER SPARROW, WESTERN MEADOWLARK, and GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE.
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