-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *June 19, 2013 *MNDU1306.19 -Birds mentioned Virginia Rail Whimbrel Boreal Chickadee Golden-winged Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler -Transcript
Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore Date: June 19, 2013 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) Reports: (218) 834-2858 Compiler: Jim Lind ([email protected]) This is the Duluth Birding Report for June 19th, 2013 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS have been found recently at Oberg Mountain in Cook County and at several inland locations in central Lake County. Steve Wilson and others reported them at Cat Lake and Gander Lake near Isabella, as well as Forest Roads 173 and 175. GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS were heard on the 12th along CR 7, 2.5 miles northeast of Finland. Craig Mandel and others found BOREAL CHICKADEES in Lake County on the 13th along the Hefflefinger Road, three miles south of the Cloquet Lake Road, and a pair of BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS 1.8 miles south of the Cloquet Lake Road. They found several calling VIRGINIA RAILS, a rarity in northeast Minnesota, along Forest Highway 11, 0.5 mile east of the Beaver River Road. A WHIMBREL was found by Peder Svingen on the 17th along Allouez Bay, 1.5 miles northwest of the first parking lot at Wisconsin Point. The next scheduled update of this report will be in two weeks on Thursday, July 3rd. The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded message. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum, e-mail us at [email protected], or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
