On October 4th, a winter-plumaged LARK BUNTING was seen briefly at the southwest corner of the Gooseberry Falls State Park Visitor’s Center parking lot in Lake County. Also on the 4th, a gray-phase GYRFALCON was reported from the mouth of the Knife River in Lake County.
Three IBIS were found on October 3rd along U.S. Highway 12, seven miles east of Ortonville in Big Stone County.

On October 2nd, a GREAT GRAY OWL was in the Sax-Zim bog area of St. Louis County, along County Road 133, midway between State Highway 7 and the town of Meadowlands. Another Great Gray was along Owl Avenue just north of its intersection with Correction Line Road.
On the 4th and again on the 5th, a NORTHERN HAWK OWL was spotted along Stone Lake Road in the Sax-Zim bog. It was found a mile and a half east of State Highway 7. The fall’s first NORTHERN SHRIKE was reported by Karen Sussman on the same day.

A RED-THROATED LOON was seen on the western side of Lake Mille Lacs on the 3rd. It was on the southern side of Wigwam Bay and could be viewed from Mille Lacs County Road 35.
As many as five YELLOW RAILS were reported on October 5th at the Expandere Wildlife Management Area in Cottonwood County, although no specific area was given.

On the 3rd, a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was found along the Washburn Lake Forest Road about a mile and a half south of State Highway 200 in Aitkin County.