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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *August 10, 2006 *MNST0608.10-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: August 10, 2006
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday August 10th 2006.
The dark-backed gull, identified as a first state record SLATY-BACKED GULL, is still being seen in the town of Grand Marais, Cook County, as it has been each day since July 21st. It tends to loaf on the rocky beach directly east of downtown and near the East Bay Motel, though it has also been seen in the harbor and on the break wall.
At least one SNOWY PLOVER is still present southeast of the town of Odessa, though it has been seen recently in Lac Qui Parle County. On August 6th, a single plover was along the west shore of the East Pool at Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge. Walk the road that continues east from the eastern end of Lac Qui Parle County Road 40 for about one-and-a-third miles to the shore of East Pool. Turn left to the northwest and walk along the shore for another two-thirds of a mile and scan to the north.
Phil Chu found twenty-two PLEGADIS IBISES in Big Stone County on August 5th. They were together in a pothole in Toqua Township along County Road 54, a mile and a half west of County Road 61. On the 6th, Bob Dunlap reported another IBIS in Traverse County at the north access to Mud Lake.
Two YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON were seen in Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Dakota County on the 7th. They were at a small pond off 120th Street near state highway 3.
Among the many shorebirds found by Chad Heins at Swan Lake in Nicollet County on the 4th were three HUDSONIAN GODWITS.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, August 17th 2006.
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