-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *June 23, 2011 *MNST1106.23 -Birds mentioned White-winged Scoter Lesser Black-backed Gull White-crowned Sparrow -Transcript Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: June 23, 2011 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 June 23rd, 2011. On June 19th, Phil Chu found a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in Wright County at Smith Lake in Middleville Township. The gull was on the peninsula about 250 yards west of the public access on the east side of the lake. On the 19th, Audrey Evers found an adult male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at Fisherman's Point of Whitewater Lake in Hoyt Lakes, St. Louis County. And unusual was the very late WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW found by Anthony Hertzel in Rock County on the 18th, in a marshy area on the north side of 241st Street, one and a quarter miles east of U.S. Highway 75. The next scheduled update of this tape is June 30th, 2011.