A preliminary total of 63 species was found on the Duluth CBC on Saturday, December 17th. Highlights included:
-- the count's first ever Black-legged Kittiwake (at Canal Park) -- the first Black-billed Magpie since 1972, along the Riley Road (CR 280) off Jean-Duluth Road (CR 37) -- Barrow's Goldeneye, Lesser Scaup, Common Loon, Great Black-backed Gull, Iceland Gull, Thayer's Gull, and Glaucous Gull at Canal Park -- two Snowy Owls in the Port Terminal area -- Varied Thrush on Superior Street near 62nd Avenue East. -- Townsend's Solitaire at the 2300 block of 5th Street East. I also received a report of a Townsend's Solitaire today on the 4200 block of McCulloch Street in the Lakeside neighborhood. -- Northern Flicker along West Skyline Drive at 6th Avenue West -- Red-bellied Woodpecker along Wabasha Street in the upper Woodland neighborhood -- two Hoary Redpolls along Allendale Avenue near Fryberger Arena in the upper Woodland neighborhood Misses included Great Horned Owl and Barred Owl, Gray Jay, Boreal Chickadee, Golded-crowned Kinglet, Snow Bunting, and Evening Grosbeak. Jim Lind ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
