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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *April 14, 2005 *MNST0504.14 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: April 14, 2005
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, April 14th.
As of April 10th, the gray-morph GYRFALCON was still in northeastern Dakota County. It was most recently reported by John Ellis just east of
the junction of county road 42 and state highway 55.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS are becoming more difficult to find in northern Minnesota, but a few birds are still being reported. On the 10th, Warren Nelson found two Great Grays on Aitkin County Road
1, two more on county road 29, and four on county road 68.
A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was reported on the 10th from Murray County. Barb McGregor and Sue Bergman found it along county road 8 between highway 91 and U.S. Highway 59.
Interesting was the report of the TUFTED TITMOUSE from Baker Park near
Maple Plain, Hennepin County. Jim Solgard heard the bird calling on April 14th. =46rom U.S. Highway 12, take county road 19 north to county
road 24, then turn right and drive less than a mile. Look for the headquarters building and listen for the bird from the parking lot and
also from along the walking trail.
Audrey Evers found a ROSS'S GOOSE at Fisherman's Point of White = Water Lake in Hoyt Lakes, St. Louis County, on April 14th. Another, found by
Keith Pulles, was in Wright County on the 13th, at Beebe Lake.
Susan Hult reported an AMERICAN AVOCET at Pool #9 of Carlos Avery WMA in Anoka County on the 10th. A remarkable total of nineteen was found by Janet Timmerman on the 11th on the northwestern shore of Lake Wilson
in Murray County.
On the 14th, a pair of LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES was seen by Emily Hutchins along highway 30 near Blooming Prairie in Steele County, about a quarter of a mile west of highway 218. A second pair was found on the 13th by Steve Weston in Dakota County, east of the 140th Street Marsh.
Also on the 14th, Conny Brunell reported one of the spring's first BROAD-WINGED HAWKS in Eagan, Dakota County. Other new reports in the past week include HORNED GREBE, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, FORSTER'S TERN,
BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, and BREWER'S
BLACKBIRD.
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