Explore Minnesota Birding Report Update March 8, 2012
The months of February and March are a great time to see many owls not normally seen when trees are filled with leaves. Look for snowy, boreal, great gray and northern hawk-owls.
The following is a list of recent, significant sightings:
There was a late report of two Mountain Bluebirds that were seen on March 3rd in Cook County at the Coho Cafe in Tofte. Both were on the lake side of State Highway 61.
On March 6th, several birders reported A Ross's Goose on Long Meadow Lake near the Bass Ponds area of Bloomington, in Hennepin County.
A Townsend's Solitaire was at the Litchfield Nature Center in Meeker County on the 4th. Another was refound at Montissippi Park in Monticello, Wright County on the 3rd. And Al Schirmacher reported one at the Ann Lake Sand Dunes in Sherburne County on the 2nd.
Chad Heins reported the first Killdeer of the spring from Blue Earth County on March 6th. Additional spring migrants reported over the last week include Green-Winged Teal, Hooded Merganser, Great Blue Heron, Northern Harrier, Pie-Billed Grebe, American Woodcock, Ring-Billed Gull, American Robin, Eastern Towhee, Rusty Blackbird, and Red-Winged Blackbird.
Information in this statewide birding report is provided by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU), Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. To submit a bird sighting, email the MOU birding report compiler at rba@moumn.org.
