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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *January 11, 2007 *MNST0701.11-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: January 11, 2007
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
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Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday January 11th 2007.
John Hockema reported a 1st-winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE on the 11th from Lake City, Wabasha County. The bird was on the ice behind the Wild Wings Art Gallery at the Lake City Sportsman's Club on the south side of town. On the 8th, Bill Unzen reported another Kittiwake at the north end of Lac Qui Parle Lake in Lac Qui Parle and Swift counties. The bird was seen from highway 119.
On January 11th, the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE was still visiting the feeder in the town of Mountain Lake, Cottonwood County. In the town of Mountain Lake, take the first exit from State Highway 60 onto 3rd Avenue and drive to 10th Street. Turn north on 10th street and drive to the edge of town to a cemetery and lake on the left. The feeder is in front of the pale green house, which is the second to the last building on the right side of the road.
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 11th.
An adult gray-morph GYRFALCON was found by Dave Evans on January 4th in the vicinity of the I-535 Blatnik Bridge in the Duluth harbor. Dave also found a SNOWY OWL on the 5th in the Duluth harbor along Garfield Avenue just east of the Goodwill store.
The SNOWY OWL northeast of the town of Plainview in Wabasha County was seen again on the 7th, along the gravel road that goes north of State Highway 42 between mile markers 21 and 22. On January 8th, Michael Cary found a NORTHERN HAWK OWL north of Duluth on the east side of St. Louis County Road 4 about a quarter of a mile north of the junction with Martin Road. Two GREAT GRAY OWLS were along the Hedbom Road in northeastern Aitkin County. On the 7th, one was six-and-half miles west of the eastern yellow gate, and the other was about two and a quarter miles west of this gate.
Unusual was the ROSS'S GOOSE found by Brian Smith on Fish Lake in Cottonwood County on the 1st.
A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE is being seen intermittently at Afton State Park in Washington County. On the 11th, it was south of the line of conifers and east of the trail that runs through the Backpacking Campground.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, January 18th 2007.
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