-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *May 28, 2010 *MNST1005.28 -Birds mentioned Long-tailed Duck Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon White-faced Ibis Ferruginous Hawk Black-necked Stilt Whimbrel Kentucky Warbler -Transcript Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: May 28, 2010 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org Reports: (763) 780-8890 Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (rba@moumn.org) This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, May 27th, 2010. A BLACK-NECKED STILT was at the Dahl Pool of Agassiz NWR in Marshall County on the 23rd and it was still there on the 27th. The area is closed to the public so birders are asked to inquire at the headquarters building for additional information. A FERRUGINOUS HAWK was reported on the 25th near Marietta in Lac qui Parle County, about seven miles west of U.S. Highway 75, a mile-and-a-half south of U.S. Highway 212. A WHITE-FACED IBIS was found by Bob Dunlap on the 23rd at Perch Lake in Blue Earth County. It was seen from the south end of the lake along Lakewood Road. Another ibis was found on the 26th by Paul Johnson in northwestern Santiago Township at the junction of Sherburne County Roads 23 and 3. Several LONG-TAILED DUCKS were at Stony Point in St. Louis County on the 22nd. Up to 102 RED-THROATED LOONS were seen by Peder Svingen at Duluth's Park Point on the 27th, and Karl Bardon reported a PACIFIC LOON on the 26th at the Lafayette Square access. Jan and Larry Kraemer found 60 WHIMBRELS near Park Point's Sky Harbor Airport on the 27th. And on the 22nd, Dave Bartkey found a KENTUCKY WARBLER along the Trout Lily Trail at the River Bend Nature Center near Faribault, in Rice County. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, June 3rd, 2010. --====1275058309==== Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*May 28, 2010
*MNST1005.28

-Birds mentioned -Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: May 28, 2010
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (rba@moumn.org)

This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, May 27th, 2010.

A BLACK-NECKED STILT was at the Dahl Pool of Agassiz NWR in Marshall County on the 23rd and it was still there on the 27th. The area is closed to the public so birders are asked to inquire at the headquarters building for additional information.

A FERRUGINOUS HAWK was reported on the 25th near Marietta in Lac qui Parle County, about seven miles west of U.S. Highway 75, a mile-and-a-half south of U.S. Highway 212.

A WHITE-FACED IBIS was found by Bob Dunlap on the 23rd at Perch Lake in Blue Earth County. It was seen from the south end of the lake along Lakewood Road. Another ibis was found on the 26th by Paul Johnson in northwestern Santiago Township at the junction of Sherburne County Roads 23 and 3.

Several LONG-TAILED DUCKS were at Stony Point in St. Louis County on the 22nd.

Up to 102 RED-THROATED LOONS were seen by Peder Svingen at Duluth's Park Point on the 27th, and Karl Bardon reported a PACIFIC LOON on the 26th at the Lafayette Square access. Jan and Larry Kraemer found 60 WHIMBRELS near Park Point's Sky Harbor Airport on the 27th.

And on the 22nd, Dave Bartkey found a KENTUCKY WARBLER along the Trout Lily Trail at the River Bend Nature Center near Faribault, in Rice County.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, June 3rd, 2010. --====1275058309====-- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:57:33 -0600 Reply-To: Dennis and Barbara Martin Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Dennis and Barbara Martin Subject: [mou-net] White-winged Dove-Big Stone NWR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Herb Dingman just called to report a White-winged Dove on the wildlife = drive for Big Stone NWR. The bird was just before the stop signs by the = rest rooms. Dennis and Barbara Martin Shorewood, MN dbmartin@skypoint.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:10:12 -0600 Reply-To: FELKER Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: FELKER Subject: [mou-net] Marshall Co. Short-eared Owl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On May 27th, my husband and I saw a Short-eared owl on a fence post on = the west side of U.S. 59 just south of 310th St. south of Newfolden. = When we turned around and looked at it, the owl flew off and then = returned to its perch as we drove back on the highway. =20 Linda Felker Eagan ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:21:35 -0600 Reply-To: Karl Bardon Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Karl Bardon Subject: [mou-net] Pacific Loon-Stoney Point Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 19:16 this evening, an adult Pacific Loon in breeding plumage flew by me= at Stoney Point, St. Louis County. The bird was heading from Duluth toward= s Knife River, so it could possibly be the same one I found at Park Point i= n Duluth on the morning of 26 May. Although a regular fall migrant in very = small numbers, this species is still only casual in spring. Karl Bardon ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html =20=20=20=20=20=20 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 11:35:22 -0600 Reply-To: dan&erika Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: dan&erika Subject: [mou-net] Carolina Wren/Carver Co. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All-- Erika and I heard a Carolina Wren at the UM Landscape Arboretum in Carver Co. It sang loudly at the southeast corner of the Green Heron Trail near a pond to the southeast of the trail. To get there, walk along the trail past where the now closed Bog Trail intersects. Keep walking maybe a mile. Keep the large wetland to your right. The trail loops to the south. The wren sang just as the trail turns west back towards the paved 3-mile driving loop. (It would be a shorter walk to start out from the driving loop.) Let me know if anyone sees or hears it again. I was lamenting that I had left my iPod at home. In a moment of inspiration, I (legally) downloaded songs (and photographs) of all the North American birds into the Droid smart phone Erika recently gave me. It was easy to do, but involved two application downloads and requires iTunes in your computer and a legally purchased copy of Thayer Birds of North America DVD or CD. If you want instructions, let me know off-list. dan --=20 Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika danerika@gmail.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 06:58:16 -0600 Reply-To: Robert Bystrom Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Robert Bystrom Subject: [mou-net] Carolina Wren at Hyland Park Reserve Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Carolina Wren at Hyland Lake Park Reserve in Bloomington (6 a.m. Sunday). The bird was singing loudly from trees on the west side of the Visitor Center parking lot. Thereafter it flew east over the center to the edge of Hyland Lake. Bob Bystrom ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:51:03 -0600 Reply-To: Brad Bolduan Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Brad Bolduan Subject: [mou-net] Male Lark Bunting Agassiz NWR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There was a male Lark Bunting present Friday and yesterday about a mile (rough guess) east of the refuge headquarters along the main road through the refuge. Brad Bolduan Windom ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:15:07 -0600 Reply-To: "Williams, Bob" Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: "Williams, Bob" Subject: [mou-net] Bell's Vireo in Houston County Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today around mid-day I found a cooperative Bell's Vireo in La Crescent = in Houston County. I was trying to follow Kim Eckert's directions to the dump on the north = side of town. It's a little confusing, but the location is by an = electrical substation that says 50 Main St. on the fence. This is on = the east side of US 14/61. There is an intersection that is not well = marked but Main St. is the east/west street and Sycamore/Chestnut is the = north/south street. Turn east here on a gravel road and you will see a = sign that says Loader has Right of Way. You will cross the railroad = tracks and curve to the north by some wetlands. You then come to a = parking area where an old semi was parked. Just to the east of the semi = was the substation. I heard and saw the bird behind and slightly to the west of the semi. =20 Bob Williams, Bloomington ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 22:10:45 -0600 Reply-To: Stephen Greenfield Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Stephen Greenfield Subject: [mou-net] Hooded & Cerulean warblers - Hennepin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I saw single singing adult male Hooded & Cerulean warblers in Minnehaha Park, which is on the east side of Hwy 55 just north of Hwy 62; mid-morning on Monday. They were both in the off-leash dog park; the Hooded right at the entrance gate near the parking lot north of the 54th St. exit off 55, the Cerulean about 1/4 mile in from the gate, along one of the paths paralleling the Mississippi in the river bottoms. (It's hard to give a good reference, let me know if you're interested.) These were the high point of my May birding (which isn't saying much given the truly abysmal migration). Stephen Greenfield Minneapolis tapaculo@q.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html