-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *October 28, 2011 *MNDU1110.28 -Birds mentioned Surf Scoter Black Scoter Red-throated Loon Thayer's Gull Snowy Owl Great Gray Owl Long-eared Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Scissor-tailed Flycatcher White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore Date: October 28, 2011 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) Reports: (218) 834-2858 Compiler: Jim Lind (jsl...@frontiernet.net) This is the Duluth Birding Report for October 28th, 2011 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. A COUCH'S/TROPICAL KINGBIRD was found on the 28th by Mike Hendrickson along Lenroot Street in west Duluth. The bird was seen again briefly at Sunnyside and Cato Street, but has not been seen since. I have a second-hand report of a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER found on the 28th by Bob Dunlap and Ben Fritchman along Waseca Industrial Boulevard near Grassy Point in west Duluth. A GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCH was found by Steve Falkowski on the 27th around beach areas of private cabins on the southwest side of Bear Island Lake near Babbitt in northern St. Louis County. It was last seen flying with Snow Buntings towards Ely. A GREAT GRAY OWL was seen on the 24th in Two Harbors at the end east of the Fairgrounds Road, one mile north of MN Highway 61. A SNOWY OWL was seen on the 28th on the Duluth side of the Bong Bridge. A LONG-EARED OWL was found by Tanya Beyer on the 24th in downtown Duluth along the Lakewalk at the Michigan Street plaza. Sandy Roggenkamp also heard one on the 22nd near Canyon, and several were banded at Hawk Ridge over the weekend. Erik Brunke saw a RED-THROATED LOON and three THAYER'S GULLS on the 23rd at the end of Minnesota Point. Jan and Larry Kraemer saw a SURF SCOTER on the 25th and the 27th on the St. Louis River on the east side of the Indian Point campground. A BLACK SCOTER flew past Hawk Ridge on the 23rd, and Kim Eckert saw one on the 27th in the Duluth Harbor between Interstate Island and the WLSSD plant. Allison Clarke reported a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER on the 24th along Ridgewood Road in east Duluth. Gary Kuyava also reported one last weekend in his upper Woodland neighborhood in Duluth. Good numbers of BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, and COMMON REDPOLLS have been seen migrating down the North Shore during the past week. Nine BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and more than 2,200 COMMON REDPOLLS were seen at Hawk Ridge on the 26th. The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, November 3rd. 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 m...@moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.
