The following is a list of recent, significant sightings:
Jesse Ellis reported a mated pair of CLARK’S GREBES with their young on July 5th. The birds were on the Douglas County side of Lake Osakis, at the boat launch along Douglas County Road 10, roughly two miles east of County Road 3.
There was an interesting sighting of a SOLITARY SANDPIPER reported by Craig Mandel over the July 4th weekend. He found it at the Big Falls sewage ponds in Koochiching County.
On July 5th, Chris Benson found a EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE near the First National Bank in the town of Plainview, in Wabasha County. The bird was easily seen from the car wash at the corner of West Broadway and 1st Street.
On July 6th, Jim Ryan reported a possible NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in St. Paul, in Ramsey County, at the northwest corner of the Cretin/Vandalia exit off Interstate 94.
And on the 4th, Emily Hutchins reported a possible GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE northeast of Mazaska Lake in Rice County, which is one-half mile south of the intersection of Fairbanks Avenue and 135th Street West. Denny Martin reported a Great-Tailed Grackle at the Somsen Wildlife Management Area, at the junction of State Highway 14 and Brown County Road 12, just west of New Ulm. Another was at the Rosenau-Lambrecht Wildlife Management Area roughly two miles west of this location on Highway 14.
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