Three hours of lake watching produced the following birds of interest today (Saturday, 7 October): 8 Surf Scoters in one flock; 3 Red-throated Loons seen together with 4 Common Loons nearby; 1 jaeger sp., observed between 10:55 and 11:15 AM, probably a juvenile Pomarine based on pale rump patch and size ~15% larger than the adult RIng-billed it was chasing, but too distant to see all of the field marks and only compared to one Ring-billed and thus left unidentified; 1 juvenile/first-winter Little Gull foraging along the beach with 4 Bonaparte's Gulls. -- Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN
