-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *November 12, 2009 *MNDU0911.12-Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore
Date: November 12, 2009
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
Reports: (218) 834-2858
Compiler: Jim Lind ([log in to unmask])
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, November 12th, 2009 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
A potential first state record BLACK GUILLEMOT was found on the 7th by Kim Eckert's Minnesota Birding Weekend group at Taconite Harbor in Cook County. Unfortunately it was found dead on the morning of the 8th.
Mike Hendrickson reported two first-cycle GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, three first-cycle ICELAND GULLS, three first-cycle GLAUCOUS GULLS, and four first-cycle THAYER'S GULLS on the 12th on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry. Erik Brunke had an ICELAND GULL at Canal Park on the 7th.
Ben Yokel and others saw five NORTHERN HAWK OWLS on the 8th, including two along Forest Highway 11, six miles east of the Stoney River Forest Road, one bird eleven miles west of the Stoney River Forest Road, one at the junction of St. Louis County Road 16 and CR 110, and two birds along US Highway 53, one mile north of Cotton. Molly Thompson saw a NORTHERN HAWK OWL on the 6th along the Laine Road (CR 266) north of the Two Harbors Road (CR 41). Heidi Seeland saw a NORTHERN HAWK OWL on the 8th north of Hovland off the Arrowhead Trail (CR 16), just past the Jackson Lake Road in Cook County. Doug Kieser and others saw a NORTHERN HAWK OWL on the 8th at the Iron Lake Campground along the Gunflint Trail (CR 12).
Doug's group also saw two SPRUCE GROUSE along the Gunflint Trail, about 1.5 miles south of the Lima Mountain Road, and another on the Lima Mountain Road, a half mile in from the Gunflint Trail. Bob Williams saw a group of eight SPRUCE GROUSE on the 9th along FR 170 about a mile east of the Sawbill Trail (CR 2), and a single bird along the Sawbill Trail just south of FR 170.
The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, November 19th.
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