Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone Jeanie Joppru <[email protected]> wrote:
>-RBA >*Minnesota >*Detroit Lakes >*July 9, 2011 >*MNDL1107.09 > >-Birds mentioned >Spruce Grouse >Sharp-tailed Grouse >Stilt Sandpiper >Short-billed Dowitcher >Black-billed Cuckoo >Black-backed Woodpecker >Yellow-bellied Flycatcher >Gray Jay >Hermit Thrush >Black-throated Green Warbler >Connecticut Warbler >Mourning Warbler >Lark Sparrow >Le Conte's Sparrow >-Transcript > >Hotline: Minnesota, Detroit Lakes >Date: July 9, 2011 >Sponsor: Lakes Area Birding Club, Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce >Reports: 1-800-542-3992 (weekdays during business hours) >Compiler: Jeanie Joppru ([email protected]) > >This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Saturday, July 9, >2011 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. > >The holiday weekend and the hot and changeable weather probably kept >most birders close to family and home last weekend, but what is a >visiting birder to do, but bird? There was only one report this week, >from a visiting birder from New Jersey. > >Scott Barnes, of the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory in New Jersey, was >birding in Roseau County on the holiday weekend and sent in the >following report. LE CONTE'S SPARROW and NELSON'S SHARPTAILED SPARROW >were seen in several places in the fallow fields near Roseau and along >the south end of MN 310 north of Roseau. On July 2, a SPRUCE GROUSE was >seen along MN 310 in the Lost River State Forest, and another was seen >along the Thompson Forest Road in the Beltrami Island State Forest on >July 4. A SHARP-TAILED GROUSE was seen along CR 118 in the Roseau Lake >bed on July 3. At the Roseau wastewater treatment ponds he observed a >HORNED GREBE.Two BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS , GRAY JAY, and a YELLOW-BELLIED >FLYCATCHER were found along MN 310 also on July 3. On Independence Day, >he saw a STILT SANDPIPER and 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS in a flooded >field west of Warroad at the intersection of 370th St and 540th Ave., >and a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was near the entrance to Hayes Lake State >Park. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was singing along the Thompson Forest Road. >On July 5, a singing LARK SPARROW was at the Pelan Pioneer Park. I was >also in Roseau County on July 3 where I heard a HERMIT THRUSH at one of >the units of the Skime WMA. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, and MOURNING >WARBLER were also found there. > >Thanks to Scott Barnes for his report. > >Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than >Thursday each week, at [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 14, >2011 > > > >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
