Went birding in Duluth this AM. Had Surf Scoters in the Harbor off the airport. Had a single White-Winged Scoter (juvenile) at Good Harbor Bay and a single Black Scoter (female or juvenile) at the North end of the Five Mile Rock area, north of Grand Marais. There was a single Sandhill Crane circling its way south from Paradise Beach. The GM Campground had 4 BBPlovers and a hundred or so LLongspurs. There was a juvenile Goshawk on a dead tree ate the Cascade River wayside beside LSuperior and an adult Peregrine at 40 feet sitting on a beach log at the bottom of the hill on Fish House Road at East Beaver Bay. Had an Am Crow riding the NNE wind from NE of Split Rock Lighthouse SP through a cut in the rocks for about two miles or more above the road. I clocked it at 60 miles an hour with NO wingbeats. When it slowed down to about 40 (near the Park) it dropped down out of the wind and starting rowing its way back up the road (presumably to do it again!!) John Ellis-St. Paul
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