2012 Festival Bird List

The 2012 Sax-Zim Bog Winter Bird Festival was a successful event and we added a lot of new birds to our growing list of birds sighted on our festival weekend.  I would like to thank all the festival leaders for all their hard work leading people and making sure participants are seeing birds. Also for answering the many questions relating to birds seen on the field trips and any other questions they are asked.  I also want to thank Chris West, Alex Stark and Seth Cutwright for organizing the festival Friday pre-trip to northern Lake County in the Isabella area to look for birds not normally seen during the festival weekend.  Thank you guys and thanks again to all the leaders!!

Here are the February 17-19, 2012 Sax-Zim Bog Winter Bird Festival bird list seen during the 3 day event.

2012 Sax-Zim Bog Winter Bird Festival

Bird List

(52 species sighted)

  1. Mallard:  Seen on the Duluth trips and Friday pre- trip at Canal Park in Duluth.
  2. *White-winged Scoter: Seen on Friday pre-trip at 42nd Ave East and London Rd. in Duluth.
  3. Common Goldeneye: Seen on Friday pre-trip and Duluth trips along Lake Superior in Duluth.
  4. *Barrow’s Goldeneye:  Seen on Saturday and Sunday Duluth trips off Leif Erickson Park in Duluth.
  5. Common Merganser: Seen on Friday pre-trip.
  6. Red-necked Merganser: Seen on Friday pre-trip.
  7. Ruffed Grouse:  Seen on Aitkin and Sax-Zim Bog field trips.
  8. Sharp-tailed Grouse:  Seen only on Sax-Zim Bog field trips.  Bulk of sightings came off Poplar Rd south of Arkola Rd.
  9. *Common Loon: Seen on Duluth trip by Chris West off Park Pt. in Duluth.
  10.  Bald Eagle: Seen on all festival field trips each day.
  11. *Sharp-shinned Hawk: Seen on a Saturday Sax-Zim Bog field trip. Location unknown at this time.
  12. Northern Goshawk: Seen on a Sunday field trip to Aitkin County. Location unknown at this time.
  13. Rough-legged Hawk: Seen on all festival field trips each day.
  14. *Golden Eagle: Seen on Saturday soaring over the bog on a Sax-Zim Bog field trip. ( immature )
  15. Ring-billed Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  16. Herring Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  17. Thayer’s Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  18. Iceland Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  19. Glaucous Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  20. Great Black-backed Gull: Seen on Duluth field trips at Canal Park in Duluth.
  21. Rock Pigeon: Seen on Sax-Zim Bog field trips and Duluth field trips.
  22. Northern Hawk Owl: Seen only the Friday pre-trip to Gooseberry Falls State Park north of Two Harbors along highway  61.
  23. Great Gray Owl: Seen on Friday Great Gray Owl Dusk Tours and Saturday and Sunday Sax-Zim Bog field trips.
  24. Downey Woodpecker: Seen on all festival field trips.
  25. Hairy Woodpecker: Seen on all festival field trips.
  26. American Three-toed Woodpecker: Seen only on the Friday pre-trip.  Seen along Sawbill Landing Rd a 1.5 miles north of Forest Road 172.
  27. Black-backed Woodpecker: Seen on Friday pre-trip in same area as American Three-toed Woodpecker and also on   Saturday and Sunday    field trips to Sax-Zim Bog along the foot path off McDavitt Road.
  28. Pileated Woodpecker: Seen on Sax-Zim Bog field trips and Aitkin County field trips.
  29. Gray Jay: Seen on Sax-Zim Bog & Aitkin County field trips.
  30. Blue Jay: Seen on all festival field trips.
  31. Black-billed Magpie: Seen only on Sax-Zim Bog field trips.
  32. American Crow: Seen on all festival field trips.
  33. Common Raven: Seen on all festival field trips.
  34. Black-capped Chickadee: Seen on festival field trips.
  35. Boreal Chickadee: Seen only on the Sax-Zim Bog field trips and Friday pre-trip in Lake County.  Seen at the Admiral Road feeders.
  36. Red-breasted Nuthatch: Seen on all festival field trips.
  37. White-breasted Nuthatch: Seen on all festival field trips.
  38. Brown Creeper (?)
  39. *Varied Thrush: Seen at Pat Thomas feeders in Duluth on Saturday’s Duluth field trip and Friday pre-trip.
  40. European Starling: Seen on all festival field trips.
  41. Dark-eyed Junco: Seen only at Pat Thomas’s feeders in Duluth.
  42. Snow Bunting: Seen on Saturday along CR 201 just north of Meadowlands Community Center.
  43. Pine Grosbeak: Seen on all festival field trips.
  44. House Finch: Seen on Saturday Duluth Field Trip at Pat Thomas’s feeders in Duluth.
  45. *Red Crossbill: Seen only on Friday’s pre-trip to Lake County along highway 1.
  46. White-winged Crossbill: Seen on all festival field trips.
  47. Common Redpoll: Seen on all festival field trips.
  48. Hoary Redpoll: Seen at Blue Spruce Rd. feeders and also at Pat Thomas’s feeders in Duluth.
  49. Pine Siskin: Seen on all festival field trips.
  50. American Goldfinch: Seen at Blue Spruce Rd. feeders in Sax-Zim Bog and also at Pat Thomas’s feeders in Duluth.
  51. Evening Grosbeak: Seen at Blue Spruce Rd feeders in Sax-Zim Bog.
  52. House Sparrow: Seen at Blue Spruce Rd feeders in Sax-Zim Bog and most likely at Pat Thomas’s feeders in Duluth.

 Asterisk next to a bird sighting denotes a first sighting for this species for the festival.

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