This is a birding report that also involves Wisconsin birds as well as Minnesota birds.
Highlights today at WI Pt. parking lot #1: - Red-throated Loon - Parasitic Jaeger - Thayer's Gull - Greater Black-backed Gull - Lesser Black-backed Gull - Frankin's Gull - 100 Bonaparte's Gulls - 150 Common Terns - 1300 Diving Ducks ( So far out and could not ID them but most likely scaup, redheads and Ring-necks ) - 16 Surf Scoters - 6 White-winged Scoters - 50 Shovelers Lots of action this morning and also large amount of passerines feeding all along the main road which consisted of sparrows and juncos. Saw one Orange-crowned Warbler this morning. This past week the juvenile Parasitic Jaeger has been flying into Minnesota waters and also Wisconsin near Gull Bluff all week. Most of the MN sightings are in the late afternoon near Sky Harbor Airport when the light it better for lake viewing and also at parking lot 1 at WI Pt. The reported Pomarine Jaeger has not been definite seen last Sunday ( Kim Eckert's MBW sighting ) BUT there has been a large jaeger seen a few times at parking lot 1 in Wisconsin and also one sighting that I know of at Park Pt in MN. So its still around but not coming near shore that often to be viewed by birders. A Glaucous Gull ( 1st cycle ) was seen this past week by Karl Bardon and Peder Svingen at parking lot 1 in Wisconsin which might represent the earliest fall record for WI. *this week there will be light east to southeast winds and hopefully more gulls, terns, jaegers will continue to show up this coming week along with waterfowl and passerines. Morgan Park Mudflats Report: Saturday Oct. 8 at Morgan Park mudflats in western side of Duluth I had the following shorebirds: - 16 Black-bellied Plovers - 3 Pectoral Sandpipers - 3 Semipalmated Plovers - 1 Dunlin To get to these mudflats take Hwy 23/ Grand Avenue to the Morgan Park entrance ( stop lights ) and take a left at the stop light. Take 88th Avenue ( main drag in Morgan Park ) and go west on 88th to Falcon Street. Take a left on Falcon St. and drive towards the St. Louis River. Falcon St. will cross over another avenue but continue down the hill and the street ends at the wooded edge. There is a old sidewalk that leads to a trail which will take you down to the hill to some railroad tracks. Walk east or go left for a 3 blocks or so and at the first opening where you can see the river the mudflats will be straight out in front of you and slightly to your left. Scope is needed to view the birds. The river is down since we have not receieved much rain this fall. Winds from the South or SW are better vs east winds because of how the water is moved by the winds. That is about it Good Birding Mike Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://www.mikehendricksonbirding.com Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
