Deb Falkowski left a message on the Duluth RBA that she and her husband Steve found a pale first-winter Iceland Gull on the dock at the end of Fish House Road in East Beaver Bay this morning. This is a steep, narrow, dead end road about a half mile east of County Road 4. Gulls often congregate either on the dock or the island just offshore.
The Falkowskis also found a Cattle Egret at the Beaver Bay sewage ponds, about 3/4 of a mile up County Road 4 from Highway 61. I also have a reliable report of a Cattle Egret that was seen last Thursday on private property off the Korkki Road in St. Louis County. These sightings, along with today's sighting in Knife River and the sighting in Grand Marais a week ago, seem to indicate a notable movement along the North Shore (or one very active bird). Jim Lind