Forwarded on behalf of Jim Lind who has been unable to post to MOU-net since his e-mail address changed to <[email protected]> (please note his new address).
-- Peder H. Svingen - [email protected] - Duluth, MN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:18:30 -0500 From: Jim Lind <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: (Fwd) Red-throated Loon in Grand Marais (and other sightings) Hi Peder, Here's my message from Sunday that didn't go through to MOU-net. Jim ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Jim Lind <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Red-throated Loon in Grand Marais (and other sightings) Date sent: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:58:41 -0500 At about 5:30 this evening I found a juvenile Red-throated Loon in Grand Marais, Cook Co. The bird was originally seen off the eastern tip of Artist's Point, but it swam east towards Croftville when a pair of parka-wearing jet-skiers came along (unbelievable!). I was able to watch it from the boat launch parking lot for about 20 minutes before it got too far away to see well. While watching the loon I met a pair of birders (Glenn and Kathy U. - can't remember the last name, sorry) who had earlier seen a Northern Mockingbird at the Cutface Creek wayside rest, about 4 miles south of Grand Marais. We relocated the bird at about 6:30 pm. On the way up the shore I stopped at the Beaver Bay sewage ponds and found a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow and a LeConte's Sparrow. The LeConte's was on the north side of the middle pond and the Sharp- tailed was on the south side. There were also 20 Pectoral Sandpipers, both yellowlegs, Wilson's Snipe, a Bonaparte's Gull, and about 100 ducks (mostly Mallards and Green-winged Teal, with one N. Pintail). At the Lutsen sewage ponds there were also a lot of ducks, along with two Am. Golden-Plovers and a Vesper Sparrow. On Saturday, at the Two Harbors airport there was a flock of 21 Am. Golden-Plovers and 5 Pectoral Sandpipers. Jim Lind Two Harbors **Please note my new e-mail address: [email protected] ------- End of forwarded message -------
