This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday,June 25, 2009 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218)847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888.
Summer took a long while to get here, but the last week has been extremely pleasant after the long cool spring. Plants and trees have taken off, and all is verdant green. Birds are feeding young throughout the area. In Marshall County, Beth Siverhus saw a pair of sandhill cranes with a colt along the west side of Agassiz NWR this week. Linda Timm in Pennington County observed three baby great horned owlets in her yard on June 20. Shelley Steva saw two turkey vultures near the intersection of US 59 and CR 3 on June 25. In Red Lake County, Shelley Steva heard a whip-poor-will singing on June 25. Kim Eckert's Minnesota Birding Weekend found a western wood-pewee at the Gary Pines on June 19, but, although several birders found it, the bird was not found by birders in the last few days. Other species seen in Norman County by Kim's group included booming greater prairie-chickens, a merlin at the Norman Motel in Ada, a barred owl south of Frenchman's Bluff, and Le Conte's sparrow. In Clay County, the MBW group found a pair of gray partridges at Felton Prairie, red-necked grebe with three babies at Hitterdahl, a western kingbird at the Starlite Motel, and northern rough-winged swallow. Nancy Jackson, during the previous week, found marbled godwit, upland sandpiper, clay-colored sparrow, vesper sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, chestnut-collared longspur, and orchard oriole at Felton Prairie. Holly Anderson found two sandhill cranes two miles west of Ponsford in Becker County on June 23. Thanks to Holly Anderson, Kim Eckert, Linda Timm, Nancy Jackson, and Shelley Steva for their reports. Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at <blocked::mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. The next scheduled update of this report is Thursday, July 2, 2009 Jeanie Joppru Pennington County, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
