Minnesota Minnesota Statewide RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *December 28, 2006 *MNST0612.28-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: December 28, 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 December 28th 2006.
The three GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCHES at the Fond du Lac Resource Management Division office just west of Cloquet in St. Louis County were all seen as recently as the 28th.
A second winter ICELAND GULL was found on the 20th at Black Dog Lake in Dakota County, along with a GLAUCOUS GULL and a THAYER'S GULL.
On the 24th, Kim Risen found a NORTHERN HAWK OWL along the Hedbom Forest Road in Aitkin County about a mile and a half west of St. Louis County Road 837. A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen in Aitkin County on the 23rd, two and a half miles west of Floodwood Road on the Hedbom Road. On the 24th, another GREAT GRAY OWL was 14 miles south of McGregor on state highway 65, near mile marker 103, also in Aitkin County. A SNOWY OWL was found on the 24th by Pat Beauzay one mile east of the junction of Redwood County Roads 5 and 12.
On December 26th, Gloria Nord reported a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE in the southeastern quarter of section 2 of Dora Township, Otter Tail County. Two TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES were found on December 24th by Ron Erpelding in Sibley State Park in Kandiyohi County. Both birds were in the cedar trees along the ski trail just west of the staff quarters building near the group camp.
Unusual was the December 23rd BALTIMORE ORIOLE seen by Bill Kass at his feeder in Rochester, Olmsted County.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, January 4th 2007.
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