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Following a "century" storm in the Duluth area, with high winds and torrential rains, 26 hopeful MOU members boarded the LL Smith Jr in search of something blown in by the weather. Unfortunately, it appears that the storm blew everything OUT of the area. Waterfowl were mostly absent from th= e trip, but gulls were in high abundance. A bounty of popcorn (thanks Shawn! and everyone) allowed us to keep a constant and steady flock of gulls behin= d us the whole while. This provided us with out best birds of the day, in the form of a 1st winter THAYER'S GULL and nice looks at BONAPARTE'S GULL. The one exciting waterfowl of the trip, was a well behaved BLACK SCOTER seen nicely in the harbor, as the trip was ending. Despite a lack of activity, the weather was quite pleasant and the trip was picturesque. Thanks to Captain Dan Rau, my co-leaders: Mike Hendrickson, Bob Dunlap, and Kim Eckert. And thanks to everyone who came! Pictures will eventually make it to my website. Tom Auer MOU Field Trip Chairman -- www.d.umn.edu/~auer0009 <http://www.d.umn.edu/~auer0009> ------=_Part_13495_19302952.1128867723016 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Following a "century" storm in the Duluth area, with high winds a= nd torrential rains, 26 hopeful MOU members boarded the LL Smith Jr in search of something blown in by the weather. Unfortunately, it appears that the storm blew everything OUT of the area. Waterfowl were mostly absent from the trip, but gulls were in high abundance. A bounty of popcorn (thanks Shawn! and everyone) allowed us to keep a constant and steady flock of gulls behind us the whole while. This provided us with out best birds of the day, in the form of a 1st winter THAYER'S GULL and nice looks at BONAPARTE'S GULL. The one exciting waterfowl of the trip, was a well behaved BLACK SCOTER seen nicely in the harbor, as the trip was ending. Despite a lack of activity, the weather was quite pleasant and the trip was picturesque.<br> <br> Thanks to Captain Dan Rau, my co-leaders: Mike Hendrickson, Bob Dunlap, and Kim Eckert. And thanks to everyone who came! Pictures will eventually make it to my website.<br> <br> Tom Auer<br> MOU Field Trip Chairman<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br><a href=3D"http://www.d= .umn.edu/~auer0009">www.d.umn.edu/~auer0009</a> ------=_Part_13495_19302952.1128867723016--
