The SELASPHORUS HUMMINGBIRD continues to visit the feeders at Laura Erickson’s home in east Duluth along Peabody Street. The bird was seen as recently as December 2nd.
GREAT GRAY OWLS and NORTHERN HAWK OWLS continue to be seen across northeastern Minnesota. The Sax-Zim bog area seems to be one of the best locations to find these birds. Check along St. Louis County Road 7 between County Roads 52 and 319, as well as along County Road 133 west of U.S. Highway 53, and along the various county and forest roads south of the town of Hoyt Lakes.
On December 2nd, Manley Olson had a VARIED THRUSH visit his yard on West Summer Street in Falcon Heights, in Ramsey County. This location is just southeast of the community park at Cleveland and Roselawn Avenues.
Two EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES were in the backyard of Steve Hettig of Olivia in Renville County on November 25th. The doves were seen along the 400 block of South Second Street.
On December 2nd, as many as twenty-thousand COMMON MERGANSERS were estimated to be on the Mississippi River at Mile Post 71 of U.S. Highway 61, about three miles southeast of the Wild Wings Wildlife Art Store in Wabasha. And, five to six thousand TUNDRA SWANS were seen at Mile Post 10 along State Highway 26 in Houston County on November 29th.
An adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was at Lake Calhoun in Hennepin County on November 27th, as well as a first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL. A first-winter Glaucous Gull was seen at Agate Bay in Two Harbors, in Lake County on the 28th. And, an adult Glaucous Gull was on the break wall at Canal Park in Duluth on the 25th.
And last, Beth Johnson reports both RED CROSSBILL and WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL were recently seen in her yard in Alexandria in Douglas County.