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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *October 6, 2005 *MNST0510.06 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: October 6, 2005
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, October 6th.
A juvenile RED PHALAROPE and two juvenile SABINE'S GULLS were seen on the MOU pelagic trip on October 1st, about a mile and a half out from Park Point on Lake Superior. Also on Park Point, Denny and Barb Martin reported a juvenile THAYER'S GULL in the flooded ball fields at the recreational area on the 4th, and Kim Eckert found two adult Thayer's Gulls here on the 5th, and Peder Svingen found a SMITH'S LONGSPUR near the Sky Harbor airport on September 30th.
Elsewhere, in Apple Valley, Dakota County, Tom Bloom saw a flock of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the 4th.
Also on the 4th, Chris Benson reported a SHORT-EARED OWL at Joyce Park in southeastern Rochester, Olmsted County. Two more Short-eared Owls were at Carlos Avery WMA in Anoka County on the 6th, just west of pool number 5.
Peder Svingen reported a MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD on October 2nd, along U.S. Highway 71 just north of Wadena County Road 13.
And Tom Lewanski found an early TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE on September 29th at a prairie remnant in Marshan Township in Dakota County.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, October 13th.
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