Minnesota Statewide RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *October 23, 1997 *MNST9810.23 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
This is the Minnesota birding report for Friday October 23rd sponsored by
the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Audrey Evers of Hoyt Lakes, St. Louis County identified a BRAMBLING at her
feeder on October 22nd. This Eurasian finch would be Minnesota's fourth
state record. Please call Audrey before visiting.
Peder Svingen found a RED PHALAROPE on October 23rd at the Crookston
sewege ponds in Polk County. Check the fartherst northwest pond, which is
situated down a hill and near the river there.
On October 19th, Peder Svingen and Karl Bardon found three PACIFIC LOONS
on Lake Superior at the public access near 12th Street on Park Point in
Duluth. On the 17th a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was found in west Duluth at the
end of Peary Street. For additional information on these and other birds
in the Duluth area, call the Duluth birding report at 218-525-5952.
A second TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was reported October 19th by Bill Carlson
about 20 miles west of St. Cloud in Stearns County. Go west of state
highway 23 to highway 22. Turn south and go to Edgerton. Go west to Elk
View Drive and turn north. The bird was seen feeding on juniper berries at
20792 Elk View Drive.
A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was found by Paul Budde on Lake Calhoun in
Minneapolis on October 21st.
A few interesting migration counts have been reported over the past week.
On Tuesday October 20th, Tony Hertzel counted 1688 COMMON LOONS on Lake
Mille Lacs in the central part of the state. As far as I know, this is the
single largest count of loons on any one lake at any one time in the state
of Minnesota. Just as interesting was the total of 230 BLACK SCOTERS
counted from the lake access near the Carlsona Beach Club on the
northeastern part of the lake. This is a record count of Black Scoters by
nearly 200 individuals. Other interesting species recorded on this weekly
census included a PACIFIC LOON, this at Wigwam Bay on the west side of the
lake, 1014 BONAPARTE'S GULL, two very late CASPIAN TERNS, and 125
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS at the end of Lakeside Drive. An equally impressive
COMMON LOON total of 1599 was reported by Peder Svingen and Karen Sussman
on their weekly census of Lake Winnibigoshish on October 21st. They also
report a total 1226 BONAPARTE'S GULL. And on October 22nd, a conservative
estimate of 25,000 blackbirds, most of them RUSTY BLACKBIRD, was seen in
Wilkin County migrating over the prairies west of Rothsay.
A BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was found by Peter Neubeck on October 18th along
U.S. highway 169 just south of Ely in St. Louis County. The bird was seen
about a tenth of a mile north of township road 404. In Rochester, Olmsted
County, a CAROLINA WREN was seen again at Leslie Kotkke's feeder on
October 22nd. Please call Leslie before visiting. And a single SURF SCOTER
was seen on Lake Buffalo in Wright County on October 16th.
For information on joining our state wide bird organization write the MOU
at
10 Church Street SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN, 55455
or e-mail us at MOUMembers@aol.com. The next scheduled update of this tape
is Thursday October 29th.
Send your rare and unusual Minnesota sightings to our electronic hotline:
MnRBA@linux.winona.msus.edu.
To learn more, send a message (the message being these two words:
info end) to
mnrba-request@linux.winona.msus.edu.
Date: October 23, 1997
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
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