Five of us from central Iowa birded northeastern Minnesota this weekend. Highlights of our trip included the following:
12 January Cloquet 2 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches at 7:40 am at the Fond du Lac Resource Management building. Sax-Zim Bog 15-20 Red Crossbills along Blue Spruce Rd, just north of CO-133 1 Boreal Chickadee at the same location 13 January Palisades, MN 1 male Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Common Grackle Risens feeders north of Tamarack 20+ Evening Grosbeaks Hedbom Forest Road Black-bellied Woodpecker: 1 male at 2.1 miles west of east gate (south side of road) American Three-toed Woodpecker: 1 male at 2.2 miles west of east gate (south side of road) Duluth (Canal Park) Harlequin Duck: a pair in shipping channel Hooded Merganser: 1 female in shipping channel, south of the Lift Bridge 14 January Superior NF area 1 Boreal Chickadee along MN-1, near Mile Marker 299 Black-backed Woodpecker: 1 male along MN-1, near MM 323 White-winged Crossbill: ca. 10, along MN-1, near MM 339 Silver Bay 1 Varied Thrush at Nelsons home at 10:45 am 1 Gray Catbird, same location White-throated Sparrow, same location (heard) Two Harbors 1 White-winged Scoter at Burlington Bay Bufflehead: 3 males + 1 female, at Agate Bay Hedbom Forest Road 1 Great Gray Owl at 6.2 miles west of east gate (on north side of road, flew to south, and then returned to north side) 1 male Black-backed Woodpecker at 8 miles west of east gate (south side of road) Jeff Nichols & Mary Doud (Boone County) Wolfgang Oesterreich (Ames) Jacek Niemiec (Krakow, Poland, temporarily in Ames) Kelly Weichers (Roland) _________________________________________________________________ Type your favorite song. Get a customized station. Try MSN Radio powered by Pandora. http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T002MSN03A07001