The MN Birding Weekends (MBW) group turned up several birds of note there this weekend, June 16-17-18, including Green Heron, Red-shouldered Hawk, two Am 3-toed Woodpeckers, Dickcissel (also in Itasca Co), and Red Crossbill:
Green Heron - SE side of Tuefer Lake, 3 mi E of Northome Red-shouldered Hawk - Pine Island Forest Rd, ~ 6 mi N of CR 30 (~16 mi W and 6 mi N of Big Falls) Am Three-toed Woodpecker - 2 locations: CR 13, 1 mi S of CR 77 (or ~11.5 mi N of Big Falls); and Twomey-Williams Forest Rd, 1.2 mi N of CR 30 (9.5 mi W and 1.2 mi N of Big Falls) Dickcissel - N side of CR 3, just W of Hwy 65 (~13 mi S of Littlefork); also in Itasca Co at 2 spots on Priem Rd (which turns E off CR 42, ~ 5 mi NE of Bigfork) Red Crossbill - a pair in “downtown” Littlefork, just W of Main St Other birds of note on this Koochiching Co MBW included: Trumpeter Swan, Red-necked Grebe, Sora, Black-backed Woodpeckers (CR 77, 1 mi E of CR 13; CR 13, 1.5 mi S of CR 77; and in Itasca Co at Scenic State Park), Peregrine Falcon (Int’l Falls sewage ponds), Olive-sided and Yellow-bellied flycatchers, Black-billed Magpie (both counties), Boreal Chickadee (CR 13), 20 warbler species (incl Golden-winged, Connecticut, and Wilson’s; Connecticut also at Scenic State Park), and Le Conte’s Sparrow. In all, we had 135 species on this 3-day MBW, which was co-led by Dave Benson. Kim Eckert, Duluth http://www.mbwbirds.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
