Tried to bird in the Duluth area for the past couple of days. Rain certainly does get in the way.
The ball fields at Park Point were seriously flooded. Water was even covering part of the road in that area but that will clear up very soon. On Tuesday morning between the rain storms we had golden and black-bellied plovers, pectoral sandpipers, Sanderlings, and a couple of Dunlin for the shorebird list, and a juvenile Thayers Gull and many Bonaparte's among the many herring and ring-billeds for the gull list. On the lake side a jaeger came directly in on us. It came so fast and since it was coming directly at us we did a poor job of figuring out what kind of jaeger. It was over the trees of Park Point and out of sight before we could catch our breath so it will stay as a species sighting. What seemed like 30 mile an hour tail winds can certainly make these guys fly fast. With our hotel having a fire on Tues afternoon (water shorted out the electricity) and out new hotel losing its electricity, along with the entire London Rd. area, on Wednesday morning we decided it was time to leave Duluth early and come home before anything else happened. The birding was probably pretty good after the rain ended this PM since we were gone. Dennis and Barbara Martin [email protected]
