If anyone can give an update on where the Great Gray owls have been seen in Sax Zim lately, I'd appreciate it; I'll be heading up this weekend for some photography.
Thanks Walt Huss -----Original Message----- >From: Kim R Eckert <[email protected]> >Sent: Jun 6, 2013 2:39 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [mou-net] Duluth, Sax-Zim Bog, Lake Co updates > >In addition to some recent mou-net postings from NE Minnesota, here are some >additional specifics from the past few days that may be useful to visiting >birders…. > >Park Point > >- At least 1 Red-throated Loon still present 5 June: on L Superior side @ 31st >Street/Lafayette Square. > >- Still a few shorebirds present, but I don't think Tom Auer's Piping Plover >or Mike Furtman's Red Knot have been seen since June 1. A few migrant warblers >still lingering in the rain/fog/cold, but far fewer than last week after the >weather cleared on June 2-3. > >Sax-Zim Bog > >- At least 5 Great Gray Owls (and probably more) present, with the most recent >sightings I've heard of on 4 June: Admiral Rd, ~3 mi N of Sax Rd (Brian >Gibbons); and CR 7, ~2.5 mi N of Sax Rd (Dave Larson & Dave Weaver). > >- Black-backed Woodpecker best looked for recently on McDavitt Rd: seen by >Gibbons ~3 mi N of Sax Rd (4 June). > >- Boreal Chickadees consistently present the past few weeks (incl 4 June) on >Arkola Rd, 1 mi E of Owl Ave or 1.5 mi W of Stickney Rd. > >- Connecticut Warbler: at least 5 recent locations, incl a cooperative singing >male at the Oxbow Rd jct with CR 25, 0.7 mi N of Zim Rd (4 June, Gibbons). > >Lake County > >- Great Gray Owl on Whyte Rd, 0.4 mi E of Stony River Forest Rd (2 June). > >- Boreal Chickadees unusually numerous this summer, with birds at 5 locations >on 2 June: on Stoney River Forest Rd between Forest Rd 11 and Whyte Rd, and on >Whyte Rd E of Stony River Forest Rd. > >- As others have noted, warblers and other passerines have been relatively >quiet in NE Minn; however, 18 warbler species were found on territory on 2 >June along the Stony River & Whyte roads and Forest Rd 102, most notably 2 >singing Bay-breasteds (Forest Rd 102, @ 1.8 N and 6.1 mi N of Whyte Rd). > >Hope this helps. I assume other birders who have been out this week have some >additional sightings of note that I'm unaware of. > > >Kim R Eckert >[email protected] >http://www.mbwbirds.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 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
