-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *October 18, 2007 *MNDU0710.18 -Birds mentioned Ross's Goose White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Red-throated Loon Lesser Black-backed Gull Sabine's Gull American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Boreal Chickadee Bohemian Waxwing Snow Bunting Pine Grosbeak -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore Date: October 18, 2007 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) Reports: (218) 834-2858 Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind at frontiernet.net) This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, October 18th, 2007 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. At least three different RED-THROATED LOONS are still being seen at Park Point, including an adult and a juvenile on the 17th at the recreation area bath house, and one adult at the same time at the Lafayette Square 31st Street access. Dedrick Benz and John Hockema found three WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS at the Park Point rowing club on the 13th, and relocated the adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL on the 12th on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry. They also saw a BLACK SCOTER fly by the bath house on the 13th. Denny and Barb Martin reported a juvenile SABINE'S GULL at the bath house on the 15th. They also had a LONG-TAILED DUCK fly by the McQuade Road access on the 15th. Another LONG-TAILED DUCK was seen at Lafayette Square on Park Point on the 17th. An immature ROSS'S GOOSE was seen on the 13th and 14th west of Two Harbors, along the Stanley Road (CR 9), 3.2 miles west of the Highway 61 4-lane expressway. Jan Green saw what was probably the same bird on the 16th at the Two Harbors golf course near the maintenance garage. It was seen again on the 17th along CR 2 near the Two Harbors arena. Twenty-one BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS flew by the Hawk Ridge overlook on the 13th. Four more were seen at the overlook on the 14th and three were seen on the 15th. Janet Riegle found a female Black-backed on the 12th in the red pine woods at Hawk Ridge, along the Superior Hiking Trail north of Skyline Drive. One was also caught at the banding station on the 17th. The first PINE GROSBEAK and SNOW BUNTING of the season flew by the overlook on the 11th. Shawn Conrad found more than a dozen BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS this week in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area off the Gunflint Trail (CR 12), including birds seen at Leg Lake, Brant Lake, and Round Lake. Shawn also saw an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER at the north end of Gabimichigami Lake and BOREAL CHICKADEES at Bat Lake and at the Round Lake access. The woodpeckers were found in areas burned by the Ham Lake Fire. Dedrick Benz and John Hockema found an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER on the 15th at the Silver Bay Marina parking lot. They found a BOREAL CHICKADEE on the 14th at the Sugarloaf Cove nature trail between markers 7 & 8, and a flock of about 50 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS in Grand Marais. The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, October 25th. The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded message. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum, e-mail us at mou at moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071018/3e2834fd/attachment.html
