Hi everyone, A couple of my friends and I spent the day in the bog today. We arrived right around sunrise and left shortly after sunset.
Winter finches are almost nonexistent. Our entire tally was 10 C Redpolls along Highway 16 north of the bog proper. Pine Grosbeaks were fairly common with several hanging around the feeders on Arkola Rd and a few flocks flying over in various places. Black-capped Chickadees were dirt common everywhere, but we did manage to find two Boreal Chickadees at the feeders on Admiral Rd and heard one at the feeders on Arkola Rd. Lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches around too. Interestingly enough, our 3rd bird of the morning was a Great Gray Owl along Highway 16 between Highway 25 and 5. The N Hawk-owl at the south end of McDavitt was still present this evening. These were the only two owls we saw. 4 N Shrikes, a Rough-legged Hawk along the west end of Arkola Rd, Blue and Gray Jays, 20 or so Ruffed Grouse, a Mourning Dove and a White-breasted Nuthatch made up most of the rest of the birds we saw today. No sign of any Black-backed or 3-toed Woodpeckers at all. McDavitt was completely silent and there was very little sign of any recent workings in the area, nor was there any trail into the trees near the road. Yesterday afternoon, we checked out Canal Park. Tally was: Herring Gull, Thayer's Gull, Iceland Gull (several of them Kumlien's Gulls), Great Black-backed, Glaucous. I'm fairly certain I had a juvie Lesser Black-backed over the Superior Landfill too, but I couldn't be 100% sure since it was flying fairly high. Did have a Peregrine Falcon flyby as we were driving through Duluth too. -- Happy Birding! --Chris W, Madison, WI http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
