-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *April 17, 2008 *MNST0804.17 -Birds mentioned White-winged Scoter Pacific Loon Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Sora Marbled Godwit Dunlin Mew Gull Forster's Tern Chimney Swift Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Townsend's Solitaire Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Yellow-headed Blackbird -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: April 17, 2008 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org Reports: (763) 780-8890 Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (axhertzel at sihope.com) The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, April 17th 2008. A possible MEW GULL was reported on the 13th at the north end of Eagle Lake in Blue Earth County, though the observer was uncertain of the identification. And despite many searches over the next two days, I am unaware of anyone with a subsequent confirmed sighting. On the 14th, a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was at the Leroy sewage ponds in Mower County. A PACIFIC LOON was at the reservoir east of the county landfill and just west of Rochester, Olmsted County, on the 11th. On the 12th, a MARBLED GODWIT was seen at the 180th street marsh in Dakota County. A singing CAROLINA WREN was found on the 12th at the corner of 75th and Dupont Streets in Richfield, Hennepin County. A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was in the northwestern corner of Chester Woods Park in Rochester, Olmsted County on the 15th. Another was in Chanhassen, Carver County on the 11th and 12th. It was seen at the intersection of Ridge Road and Pleasantview Road. An extraordinarly early NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW was reported on April 16th from the southeast side of the Purgatory Creek wetlands in Eden Prairie, Hennepin County. The typical arrival date for this species is May 13th. Recent spring arrivals now include BROAD-WINGED HAWK, SWAINSON'S HAWK, SORA, DUNLIN, FORSTER'S TERN, CHIMNEY SWIFT, HOUSE WREN, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, VESPER SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, April 24th 2008. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080417/193d4328/attachment.html
