-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *December 27, 2007 *MNST0712.27 -Birds mentioned Harlequin Duck Barrow's Goldeneye Snowy Owl Great Gray Owl American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Townsend's Solitaire Bohemian Waxwing -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: December 27, 2007 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org Reports: (763) 780-8890 Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel at sihope.com) This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, December 27th 2007. At least one BARROW'S GOLDENEYE is still being seen on the Mississippi River near Point Douglas, Washington County, as is the adult male HARLEQUIN DUCK. A GREAT GRAY OWL was found by Greg Seegert on the 24th in the Sax-Zim Bog along the McDavitt Road, two and a half miles north of St. Louis County Road 28. And on the 23rd he found an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER and two BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS along the Hedbom Forest Road in Aitkin County. This was half a mile west of the St. Louis County line. Sparky Stensaas reported a SNOWY OWL on the 22nd along Airport Road in Duluth near Cirrus Design. Another was found by Karlyn Eckman on the 21st as it flew over the south end of the Raymond Avenue bridge in Saint Paul. A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was still in Two Harbors, Lake County, on the 21st, at 1st Street and 4th Avenue. On the 23rd, another was found by John and Ann Mathisen at the small condominium at 913 Rako Street in Bemidji, St. Louis County. And several BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were in Pine City, Pine County on the 22nd, near the junction of Tigua and Midriver Road, just west of I-35. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, January 3rd 2008. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071227/2a0f5286/attachment.html

