Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
Minnesota Statewide RBA
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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *June 10, 1999 *MNST9906.10 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: June 10, 1999
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (612) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (tony@millcomm.com)
Re-transcriber: David Cahlander (dac@skypoint.com)
This is the Minnesota birding report for Thursday June 10th sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The EURASIAN TREE SPARROW is still being seen at Chuck Heuer's feeder near the town of Rolaag in Clay County. Please call Chuck at 218-233-8365 for additional information and directions.
Flip Rogers reported an adult LITTLE BLUE HERON from Murphy Hanrehan Park in Scott County. On June 7th he found the bird at a marsh on the south side of the park. This may be the same individual seen early last week on the south side of Snelling Lake in southern Hennepin County.
On June 6th Karen Sussman and Ben Yokel found a late ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in the Sax-Zim bog. The bird was found along St. Louis County Road 207, one mile north of County Road 52.
On the 9th an AMERICAN AVOCET was found in Dakota County by Drew Smith on the west side of Lake Byllesby across from the Lakeside Cemetery. And Ned Winters found three PIPING PLOVERS at Pine-Currys Island in Lake of the Woods County on the 5th.
A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was seen in Roger Field's yard on Monday June 6th just north of the town of Hutchinson in McLeod County.
Kathy Heidel is reporting that a few CERULEAN WARBLERS can be found at Carver Park in Carver County. Please call Kathy for additional information at 612-472-4911.
And on June 7th Tony Hertzel and Peder Svingen found three HENSLOW'S SPARROWS in western Minnesota. One was at the northeast corner of the Bicentennial Prairie in Clay County and two were on the south side of the road at the Elliott Natural Area in Wilkin County.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday June 17th.
Send your rare and unusual Minnesota sightings to our electronic hotline: MOU-net@biosci.umn.edu. To learn more, send a message (the message being these two words: info mou-net) to majordomo@biosci.umn.edu.
