Explore Minnesota Birding Report Update November 4, 2013
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There has been very little to report over the past couple of weeks. Most observations have been of late migrants and of lingering individual birds.
A Northern Hawk Owl was in Cook County on Nov. 3rd. It was found by Doug Kieser along the Gunflint Trail about a mile north of Grand Marais near fire call #723. A Northern Mockingbird was also seen in the Grand Marais area, specifically 1st Street and 5th Avenue.
At Canal Park in Duluth, there have been reports of up to seven Thayer's Gulls and a Lesser Black-Backed Gull roosting on the harbor break wall. On Nov. 3rd, Mike Hendrickson reported a Long-Tailed Duck just northeast of Duluth at the McQuade Road safe harbor along Scenic Highway 61. Conny Brunell found both a Lesser Black-Backed Gull and a Glaucous Gull at
Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on the 1st.
At Lake Byllesby, Laura Coble reports that there were still 29 Pectoral Sandpipers, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, and A Lesser Yellowlegs seen from the northwest side of the lake in Dakota County on Nov. 1st.
And near Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge in Sherburne County, upwards of 5,900 Sandhill Cranes are staging in recently harvested corn fields. Check especially along County Roads 3 and 11. A couple of Common Ravens were also seen here by Barb Kull on Nov. 1st.
Information in this statewide birding report is provided by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU), Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. View photographs of recent sightings at the MOU website. To submit a bird sighting, email the MOU birding report compiler at rba@moumn.org.
