Explore Minnesota Birding Report Update March 25, 2013
Birders are already planning for the Salt Lake Birding Weekend offered April 27 & 28. Meet Saturday at 7:00 a.m. at the Marietta American Legion for coffee & sweet rolls then head out in guided caravans for field trips to Salt Lake, Big Stone Refuge, and other surrounding areas. Meet back in Marietta for lunch then head back out in the afternoon. On Saturday evening, enjoy a chicken dinner at the Sons of Norway Hall along with a short program and a discussion and tally of the day's sightings. Self-guided birding tours are planned for Sunday. Lodging is available in Madison, Montevideo, Dawson, Appleton or Canby. To learn of other birding weekends, visit the Minnesota Birding Weekends site.
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The following is a list of recent, significant sightings, however, since the last update of this report there has been very little birding news:
An apparent female Barrow's Goldeneye has been seen intermittently at the Coon Rapids Dam on the Hennepin/Anoka county line.
A Snowy Owl was near Euclid in Polk County on March 19th.
A male Varied Thrush is being seen in Alison Clarke's yard along the 200 block of Ridgewood Road in east Duluth.
A bit far south was the Pine Grosbeak seen March 18th on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota.
Spring migration has slowed with the colder weather, but there have been recent reports of Tundra Swan, Sandhill Crane, American Woodcock, Merlin, Eastern Bluebird, and American Robin.
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.
