The direction to this neat birding spot and a place that might get a lot of attention in the coming years. Grassy Point Park like Dave mentions has a boardwalk out to the St. Louis River and once you get to the river there are two over looks to view the cattail marshes and the river. I was there yesterday and saw some Least Sandpipers on a mud flat. So for birdathoners this might be a place to find shorebirds and other migrants.
1. Take Central Avenue Exit off I-35 2. Follow Central Avenue which runs pass the paper plant and a the back side of Irving Hockey rinks. 3. Central Avenue comes to a stop sign. 4. Take a left on Waseca/Industrail 5. Cross over the bridge and veer right from the back entrance signs to the paper plant/power plant. 6. Take a left on to Lesure St. and follow Lesure all the way to the end and park in the parking lot and walk the boardwalk out to the river. Mike H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:04 PM Subject: [mou] Pre-birding Duluth before Birdathon > In an effort to do some pre-Birdathon scouting, I turned up the following: > 14 May: Red-throated Grebe at new Grassy Point Park (a neat boardwalk with > several platforms for viewing in the St. Louis River marsh behind the Enso > Stora papermill in West Duluth). Spotted Sandpiper at the boat landing on > the bay side at the end of Park Point. Several Palm and Yellow-rumped > Warblers on the bay side (lake side is still very cold with ice on the > beach). Several small rafts of Greater Scaup with a few Goldeyes on the bay > side. 40th Ave West is very dry reflecting our below average rainfall this > spring. Watch out at the yellow steel gate. It was open when I went in with > my truck and save for the kindness of a MN Power repairman, who was part of a > crew fixing lines damaged in a grass fire, I would have been locked in. He > indicated that the Duluth Police Department decided to keep the gate locked > except for workers, so if its open, it might be locked when you return! > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net >
