I stopped by Point Douglas yesterday afternoon and saw one male Barrow's goldeneye, so at least one is still hanging around. I also saw a dark morph rough-legged hawk at 494 and hwy 61.
Sharon Stiteler www.birdchick.com Minneapolis, MN On Dec 20, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Anthony Hertzel wrote: > -RBA > *Minnesota > *Minnesota Statewide > *December 20, 2007 > *MNST0712.20 > > -Birds mentioned > Harlequin Duck > Barrow's Goldeneye > Snowy Owl > Northern Hawk Owl > American Three-toed Woodpecker > Townsend's Solitaire > -Transcript > Hotline: Minnesota Statewide > Date: December 20, 2007 > Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org > Reports: (763) 780-8890 > Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel at sihope.com) > This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, December 20th 2007. > > On the morning of December 16th, Bruce Fall found a BARROW'S > GOLDENEYE in a large flock of Common Goldeneyes on the Mississippi > River near Point Douglas, Washington County. The following day, two > BARROW'S GOLDENEYE were seen here. Bruce also found an adult male > HARLEQUIN DUCK in the Mississippi River near the U.S. Highway 10 > bridge. > > A NORTHERN HAWK OWL was in the Sax Zim bog in last week, half a > mile west of St. Louis County Road 7 along county road 28. On the > 19th, a SNOWY OWL was reported one mile north of highway 40, along > Chippewa County Road 9. > > A pair of AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS was found by Dale Yerger > on the 17th along Cass County Road 8, six miles north of the bridge > at Federal Dam. > > On the 17th, Debbie Waters reported a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE at the > Northland Country Club in Duluth. Check the coniferous trees that > are across from Old Howard Mill Road and run perpendicular to > Skyline Parkway. Another TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE has been behind the > Science Museum in St. Paul, Ramsey County, for about ten days. > > The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, December 27th > 2007. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071221/e38c2ff0/attachment.html