Just one day after Karl Bardon and others recorded a record high fall count of 730 White-throated Sparrows during the 9/21 Hawk Ridge / Lester River Census in Duluth, I carefully counted 1,035 along a 2.5 mile stretch of East Superior Street between state highway 61 and McQuade Road, from 7:45 AM to 9:11 AM on the 22nd of September. This included a single flock of 240 White-throats peppering 80th Ave East -- a short, dead-end gravel road just west of Lakewood Road. Elsewhere in Duluth including my own yard, there were several dozen White-throats throughout the day with additional large flocks on Park Point and Wisconsin Point. Most of these flocks were monospecific, but some had a few White-crowned and Chipping Sparrows, and Dark-eyed Juncos. The only Harris's Sparrows that I found today was a flock of 8 at the Lafayette Square community gardens on Park Point.
-- Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN [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
