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)
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