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Park Point / Minnesota Point Playing Fields

August 20, 2015Year 2MN North: Amity, MN North: Brighton Beach, MN North: Minnesota Pointrichardhoeg@gmail.com

The rains returned to northeast Minnesota, and with the drenching rain the puddles / ponds reappeared on the playing fields at the end of Park Point. This combination plus the NE winds insured that at this time of year migrating shorebirds made an appearance to feed. Here are a few photos I took during yesterday morning’s blustery and foggy conditions.

I’ve also added two owl photos I took just prior to the start of this project / web site. Both owl photos were taken late winter 2013 within 800 yards of my home on Amity Creek.

Post Update on August 22nd: I’ve updated this entry to correctly identify one of the birds as a Lesser Yellows. Please see the comments for this blog post, as Adam and Dan helped with the ID and provided useful information.

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Great Yellowlegs

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Lesser & Great Yellowlegs on the hunt!

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Barred Owl (archive photo)

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Boreal Owl (archive photo)

Invasion from Up North: Lesser Yellowlegs & Wilson’s Phalaropes

August 12, 2015Year 2MN North: Minnesota Pointrichardhoeg@gmail.com

The shore bird invasion of Duluth from northern Canada and the Arctic continues. Last weekend’s rains have made for one HUGE puddle / pond at the end of Park Point (Minnesota Point) on the playing fields. The shore birds have been enjoying a bonanza of easy food … drowned bugs and grubs. For the past two days I have been visiting this location at last light and dawn. The birds have not disappointed me!

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Lesser Yellowlegs

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Wilson’s Phalarope

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Semipalmated Plover

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Least Sandpiper

A Migration Ride on Lake Superior’s NE Wind: Plovers, Willets and Yellowlegs

August 8, 2015Year 2MN North: Minnesota Pointrichardhoeg@gmail.com

The fall shorebird migration is in full force riding yesterday’s strong NE wind off Lake Superior. These birds spend very little time on their northern breeding grounds in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic, and are now working their way south to the Gulf Coast, Central and in some cases South America. Over the past two days in the Duluth area, we have had significant rainfall which has turned the playing fields at the end of Park Point (also known at Minnesota Point) into a large wetlands / puddles which are a perfect bug hunting area for shorebirds.

A Willet