Mike Hendrickson called to report that as of 7:30 this morning (11/8),
the Black Guillemot was still present in the protected portion of the
safe harbor at Taconite Harbor. Anyone interested in seeing this
potential first state record should try to do so today.
Peder Svingen
Duluth, MN
Both the Pioneer Press and Star Tribune had obits today. Murray was a
long time MOU member and supporter of environmental causes, issues and
programs such as the Nature Conservancy, the Bell Museum and the Izaak
Walton League.
Manley Olson
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9:45 AM, Saturday: Word from Taconite Harbor along the North Shore of
Lake Superior is that the Black Guillemot appears to be close to death.
Anthony Hertzel
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The bird has been declared dead removed as of 11:30am Bob Williams
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Today, Sun. Nov 8, 2009, a gray screech owl was sunning itself in our wood duck
box at noon. It has now dropped into the box and appears on the video camera to
be sleeping. Because it is warm today I expect the owl will spend much of the
time this afternoon sitting in the entry hole.
Just a
Joshua and I went birding with Karen Sussman today and located at
least 5 individual Northern Hawk Owls:
Hwy 53, one mile N of Cotton (near Moberg rd): 2 birds. Relocated
(assumed to be the same birds) on Randall rd about 1/2 mile east of 53
in the afternoon
Forest rd 11, 6 miles east
Hello:
What a wild Saturday evening and Sunday morning. I thought I share some time
line information for those that did not see the Black Guillemot and for those
that saw it this morning.
- I got a call from Kim Eckert about the sighting at 3:10pm or so and the bird
was seen right up to
Jim Otto, Scott Meyer and I birded along the Gunflint Trail and nearby roads
this morning.
Some highlights:
2 Spruce Grouse on the Gunflint Trail, about 1 1/2 miles south of Lima Mtn Rd.
1 Spruce Grouse on Lima Mtn Rd. 1/2 mile from Gunflint Trail. (Sevaral Ruffed
Grouse also observed along the
I got a chance to see the Black Guillemot this morning. Thanks to Mike for
covering the specifics on this bird. Attached are my photos from this
morning! This was my first guillemot I've ever seen, and the black, gray and
white markings were absolutely stunning!
The bird was in an upright position, still bobbing like a decoy when
Erik Bruhnke retrieved it from the water (dead and already stiff with
rigor mortis). One eye did appear to bevever so slightly open at the
time, but the bird was most definitely dead ;-)
Ben Yokel
Cotton, MN
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The only thing that I would add to this is that I did not make the decision to
collect the bird nor did I collect the bird. Ben Yokel's posting confirms that
to some extent. The decision was made before I arrived. I simply wanted to let
people know what had happened so they could act
While lots of other folks went chasing the Black Guillemot today, I made
my way up through Sherburne to Lake Mille Lacs. The large number of
hunters made me favor the roadside birding of Mille Lacs over the
bush-beating of Sherburne.
I found two Townsend's Solitaires, singing, calling, and
Mike,
All I'm going to say is this. If the day ever comes, and it probably won't,
when birders get as excited over healthy native bird communities and their
associated habitats as they do chasing vagrant birds hundreds or thousands of
miles out of their normal geographic range, bird
Dear all Birders who saw the Black Guillemot this morning 11/8 that the Black
Guillemot was indeed dead during the whole time we observed it till it was
collected around 11:30am. The bird was in rigor mortis and that is the reason
the bill was parallel to the water surface and as we all
I went to Diamond Lake on Portland and Diamond Lake Road on Sunday and
spotted the dark morph snow goose between 3 and 4 pm. A few kyaker's
paddled by and the flock Canda geese it was with, flew off.
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