-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *November 16, 2012 *MNST1211.16 -Birds mentioned Surf Scoter Black-legged Kittiwake Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull White-winged Dove Snowy Owl Cassin's Kingbird Tufted Titmouse Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Varied Thrush -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: November 16, 2012 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org Reports: (763) 780-8890 Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (r...@moumn.org) This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday November 15th, 2012. That first state record CASSIN'S KINGBIRD was still in Grand Marais, Cook County as recently as the 12th, along 3rd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. A BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was seen briefly near Canal Park in Duluth on the 12th, but has not been reported since. I have a secondhand report of what may have been a WHITE-WINGED DOVE seen on the 9th at the Taconite Harbor water access road in Cook County, but I have no details. Both a SURF SCOTER and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL were on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on the 11th. On the 15th, a first-winter ICELAND GULL was reported at the Florence Township Beach boat landing along Goodhue County Road 2 near Lake Pepin. A SNOWY OWL was at the Bemidji Industrial Park in Beltrami County on November 8th. The following day, one was just south of Warren in Marshall County, at the intersection of 190th Street and 310th Avenue NW. And in Aitkin County, a Snowy Owl was along Fleming Township Road 78 about a mile north of state highway 210 on the 12th. Jim Rataczek had a TUFTED TITMOUSE visit his feeder along Hillcrest Lane in Circle Pines in Anoka County on the 11th. A MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD is still being seen in Two Harbors, Lake County, along the gravel frontage road near the Edna G, and another was at Park Point in Duluth on the 13th, along the road just north of the Sky Harbor Airport. In Sherburne County, a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was at the end of the road to the Ann Lake campground on the 15th. It was found on 168th Street, about one mile south of the corner of Sherburne County Road 4. And a VARIED THRUSH was along the 800 block of Pebble Creek Drive in western St. Cloud, Stearns County, on the 13th. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday November 22nd, 2012. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
