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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *January 19, 2006 *MNST0601.19 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: January 19, 2006
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, Janurary 19th.
The adult GYRFALCON near mile marker 216 of state highway 55 was seen as recently as January 16th, just west of Hastings in Dakota County. Another Gyr was seen by Paul Budde on the 14th near Schar's Bluff in Dakota County, along 132nd Street East between Jacob and Idell Avenues.
Eddy Edwards reports that the previously reported HARLEQUIN DUCKS are still being seen at Hannah Park in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County. The birds are apparently present only in the early morning and late afternoon.
NORTHERN HAWK OWLS were still present along both the Stone Lake Road and the McDavitt Road in Sax-Zim bog of St. Louis County on the 17th. Another was seen on the 15th south of Tamarack on the east side of Aitkin County Road 16 about two and a half miles north of the town of Lawler. Also on the 15th, there was a Northern Hawk Owl on Itasca County Road 48 just south of the intersection with Alder Road.
A SNOWY OWL was found January 9th by Tom Weigt on state highway 99 west of Oak Leaf Lake in Nicollet Couty. On the 13th two Snowy Owls were in Stevens County. One was near the intersection of county roads 8 and 7 and the other was on county road 8 just east of the Big Stone County line. And Ben Wieland and Dale Yerger relocated the Snowy Owl along 450th Street, 1.8 miles west of Aitkin County Road 5 on January 18th.
A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was reported from the Ann Lake campground in Sherburne County on January 16th. On the same day, Jim Lind found a Townsend's Solitaire in Schoeder, Cook County, along highway 61, at the road to the Father Baragas Cross.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, Janurary 26th.
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