-RBA
*Minnesota
*Duluth/North Shore
*October 28, 2011
*MNDU1110.28

-Birds mentioned -Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: October 28, 2011
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind (jslind@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 mou@moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org. --====1319848248====-- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:39:06 -0600 Reply-To: Bob Dunlap Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Bob Dunlap Subject: [mou-net] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher present Saturday morning Duluth Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is currently perched on the barbed wire fence in the same location as yesterday afternoon in Duluth. Bob Dunlap ---- 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: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:05:00 -0600 Reply-To: "Williams, Bob" Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: "Williams, Bob" Subject: [mou-net] Eurasian Collared-Doves in Le Sueur County Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I finally found 2 Eurasian Collared-Doves in Montgomery in the vicinity of the grain elevators. They flew to a wire to the west and I was able to view them through the scope. This appears to be a first county record. Bob Williams, Bloomington ----------------------------------------------------------------------=0D "The information in this electronic mail message is the sender's =0D confidential business and may be legally privileged. It is intended =0D solely for the addressee(s). Access to this internet electronic mail =0D message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended =0D recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken =0D or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be =0D unlawful."=0D =0D "The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free =0D of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. =0D This message and its attachments could have been infected during =0D transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the=0D recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and =0D remedial action about viruses and other defects. The sender's =0D employer is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way =0D from this message or its attachments." ---- 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 Oct 2011 12:27:12 -0600 Reply-To: David Cahlander Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: David Cahlander Subject: [mou-net] Fw: Scott's Oriole/Hooded Oriole - Cook county Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1:25 pm. mou-net has been down, so I'll resend this message. According = to Kim Eckert, they think the bird is a female Scott's Oriole. The bird = has now been lost. I think they are trying to re-find the bird. The = last location for the bird was 3ed St and E 2nd Ave. From: David Cahlander=20 To: Rare Bird Alert=20 Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 10:58 AM Subject: Scott's Oriole/Hooded Oriole - Cook county Kim Eckert reports a female oriole in Grand Marias, at 1st Street and = 2nd Avenue. The bird is giving a call note of a Hooded Oriole but = appears to have the plumage of a Scott's Oriole. Message forwarded from Tony Hertzel. --- David Cahlander david@cahlander.com Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910 ---- 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 Oct 2011 12:29:11 -0600 Reply-To: Karl Roe Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: Karl Roe Subject: [mou-net] Probable Scott's Oriole, Grand Marais Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kim Eckert asked me to post a probable Scott's oriole, juvenile male, present in Grand Marais today (Sunday 10-30-11). He and other birders observed the bird between 10 and 11am at the corner of East 2nd Ave. and 3rd St. The ID of the bird was at first less certain, being either hooded or Scott's, but further examination points more toward Scott's. -Karl Roe ---- 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 Oct 2011 10:58:25 -0500 Reply-To: David Cahlander Sender: Rare Bird Alert From: David Cahlander Subject: Scott's Oriole/Hooded Oriole - Cook county MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01CC96F2.D916E4B0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01CC96F2.D916E4B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kim Eckert reports a female oriole in Grand Marias, at 1st Street and = 2nd Avenue. The bird is giving a call note of a Hooded Oriole but = appears to have the plumage of a Scott's Oriole. Message forwarded from Tony Hertzel. --- David Cahlander david@cahlander.com Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910 ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01CC96F2.D916E4B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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