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-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*December 4, 2008
*MNST0812.04

-Birds mentioned
Tundra Swan
Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl
Black-backed Woodpecker
Townsend's Solitaire
Varied Thrush
-Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: December 4, 2008
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel ([log in to unmask]) 

This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, December 4th 2008.

Upwards of twelve thousand TUNDRA SWANS have been reported from Pool 8
of the Mississippi River near Brownsville in Houston County. Pool 8 can
be seen from the new viewing area on State Highway 26 south of
Brownsville.

In St. Louis County, a GREAT GRAY OWL was found on the 4th along county
road 16, three-quarters of a mile east of county road 5. This is just
southeast of the Hibbing airport. In the Sax-Zim Bog, two Great Grays
were along Nichols Lake Road between two and two-and-a-half miles east
of state highway 7, one was along state highway 7 four miles south of
Arkola Road, and one was along McDavitt Road 3.7 miles south of Zim
Road. East of here, another was seen on the 2nd along West Melrude Road
about three-quarters of a mile east of U.S. Highway 53. North of here, a
NORTHERN HAWK OWL was spotted on November 30th at the intersection of
U.S. Highways 169 and 53. Another was about two miles south of Cotton on
the east side of U.S. Highway 53. And in Lake County, a Hawk Owl was
along Sand Lake Road, forty miles north of State Highway 61 along Lake
County Road 2. 

A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE is still at the Ann Lake campground of Sherburne
NWR in Sherburne County. It was most recently reported on the 4th. On
the 1st, a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was on the Blue Hill Trail of the
refuge in the northeast corner of a stand of spruce trees.

And in Ely, St. Louis County, a VARIED THRUSH has been seen since the
1st along the 1200 block of east Main Street, and another was reported
on the 1st along the 1200 block of east Washington Street.

The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, December 11th 2008.


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