This is the Duluth Birding Report for Tuesday, November 23, 2004,=20 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists=92 Union.
The selasphorus sp. hummingbird (RUFOUS or ALLEN=92S HUMMINGBIRD)=20 continues to come to Laura Erickson=92s feeders in the lakeside=20 neighborhood of Duluth. The bird was seen again yesterday. A PACIFIC LOON was seen on the 19th and 20th at Agate Bay in Two=20 Harbors. Janet Blixt had two NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS in her yard in the central=20 hillside area of Duluth on the 21st. GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS continue to be seen frequently=20 across Northeastern Minnesota. They were again reported this week at=20 too many locations to mention here, but many birders had success in the=20= Sax-Zim area along Cty Rd 7 between 52 and 319, along Hwy 133 between=20 Hwy 53 and Meadowlands, and along other roads in the area, including=20 McDavitt Rd and Admiral Rd. Between and to the north of Two Harbors and=20= Duluth, Jim Lind found a number of Great Grays along Forest Hwy 11. =20 Closer to Duluth, Great Grays were seen this week in the pine=20 plantation at Hawk Ridge and at the intersection of Maxwell and Oak=20 Street. Please continue to report the time and location of your=20 sightings. Ann russ found an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN in the harbor at Taconite=20 Harbor on the 21st, and Uwe Kausch saw another along Lake Cty Rd 2, a=20 mile north of Two Harbors on the 22nd. The Duluth Christmas Bird Count will be held on Saturday, December 18,=20= 2004. Anyone interested in participating should contact compiler Jim=20 Lind (jsl...@frontiernet.net) for more information. The Two Harbors Christmas Bird Count will be held the following day on=20= Sunday, December 19, 2004. Please contact compiler Frank Nicoletti=20 (bjbor...@aol.com) if interested in participating The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, December=20= 2. The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-728-5030.=20 Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded=20 message. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota=20 Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more=20 information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum to=20 m...@cbs.umn.edu, or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org.=
