-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *May 15, 2009 *MNDU0905.15 -Birds mentioned Long-tailed Duck Virginia Rail Sora Piping Plover Thayer's Gull Chimney Swift Black-backed Woodpecker Blue-headed Vireo Bank Swallow House Wren Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Clay-colored Sparrow Bobolink -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore Date: May 15, 2009 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) Reports: (218) 834-2858 Compiler: Jim Lind ([email protected]) This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, May 14th, 2009 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. A PIPING PLOVER was found by Jan and Larry Kraemer on the 14th on the lakeside of the Park Point Recreational Area. This may be the same bird reported from Wisconsin Point on the 13th. Peder Svingen found a first-cycle THAYER'S GULL on the 13th on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry. Chris and Cindy Edwardson found a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER on the 10th in Hartley Nature Reserve along one of the mountain bike paths in the Kenwood area. Five LONG-TAILED DUCKS were seen on the 10th and 11th at Burlington Bay in Two Harbors. New arrivals during the past week include SORA, VIRGINIA RAIL, CHIMNEY SWIFT, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BANK SWALLOW, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, HOUSE WREN, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, WILSONS WARBLER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, LE CONTES SPARROW, NORTHERN ORIOLE, and BOBOLINK The Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory is looking for observations and locations of nesting raptors in the city of Duluth. Reports should be sent ASAP to assure time for nesting observations to occur. Please contact Frank Nicoletti either by phone at (218) 724-0758 or by e-mail at [email protected] The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, May 21st. The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded message. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum, e-mail us at [email protected], or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org. ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
