-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *May 7, 2009 *MNST0905.07-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: May 7, 2009
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, May 7th 2009.
In Pope County, a SAY'S PHOEBE was reported on the 5th near the town of Glenwood. From Glenwood go south on state highway 104 for about seven and a half miles to 255th Street. Turn west and drive to 245th Avenue. Turn south to 270th Street and go west on the dead end road for about a mile to where the grasslands occur on both sides of the road. Another SAY'S PHOEBE was reported on May 2nd at the intersection of Cottonwood County road 6 and Jackson County road 7.
On the 4th, A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was reported along the dike road at Prairie Island in Winona County, about a third of a mile past McNalley Landing.
I have a secondhand report of four SURF SCOTERS at the East Landfill Reservoir near Rochester in Olmsted County on May 5th. Another was on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis today.
Two PIPING PLOVERS were seen on the 3rd at Olson Lake WPA in Kandiyohi County and another was in a flooded field along 120th Street near Pennock, three-quarters of a mile north of U.S. Highway 12.
On the 3rd, a WESTERN TANAGER was at Red Rock County Park, which is on the border of Brown and Cottonwood counties.
Representative spring arrivals include HUDSONIAN GODWIT, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, CASPIAN TERN, CHIMNEY SWIFT, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, SEDGE WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, HENSLOW'S SPARROW, and BOBOLINK.
And on the 5th, two Whooping Cranes were in a meadow on the south side of 18th Street in eastern Owatonna, Steele County. Likely these are birds from the introduced Wisconsin flock.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, May 14th 2009.