Mike Hendrickson called to report that as of 7:30 this morning (11/8),
the Black Guillemot was still present in the protected portion of the
safe harbor at Taconite Harbor. Anyone interested in seeing this
potential first state record should try to do so today.
Peder Svingen
Duluth, MN
9:45 AM, Saturday: Word from Taconite Harbor along the North Shore of
Lake Superior is that the Black Guillemot appears to be close to death.
Anthony Hertzel
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Hello:
What a wild Saturday evening and Sunday morning. I thought I share some time
line information for those that did not see the Black Guillemot and for those
that saw it this morning.
- I got a call from Kim Eckert about the sighting at 3:10pm or so and the bird
was seen right up to
The bird was in an upright position, still bobbing like a decoy when
Erik Bruhnke retrieved it from the water (dead and already stiff with
rigor mortis). One eye did appear to bevever so slightly open at the
time, but the bird was most definitely dead ;-)
Ben Yokel
Cotton, MN
Sent from
While lots of other folks went chasing the Black Guillemot today, I made
my way up through Sherburne to Lake Mille Lacs. The large number of
hunters made me favor the roadside birding of Mille Lacs over the
bush-beating of Sherburne.
I found two Townsend's Solitaires, singing, calling, and
Mike,
All I'm going to say is this. If the day ever comes, and it probably won't,
when birders get as excited over healthy native bird communities and their
associated habitats as they do chasing vagrant birds hundreds or thousands of
miles out of their normal geographic range, bird
Dear all Birders who saw the Black Guillemot this morning 11/8 that the Black
Guillemot was indeed dead during the whole time we observed it till it was
collected around 11:30am. The bird was in rigor mortis and that is the reason
the bill was parallel to the water surface and as we all
