Harbor Center Open for VisitorsHarbor Friends has opened Harbor Center at 8 North Broadway in Grand Marais. This is a new resource for the harbor, offering information to visitors and place for the harbor's many friends to get together. Harbor Center is open Thursday through Monday from 10 am to 4pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Volunteers are needed at Harbor Center so it can be kept open on a full schedule. If you can help out -- for an hour or a day on an occasional basis or on a regular schedule --please phone, write or drop in and sign up. Your membership and support is welcome. Field Guide Series - BirdsHarbor Friends has published the first of its Outdoor Classroom - Field Guide Series volumes. Entitled Birds, it covers all the birds with nesting populations in and around the Harbor. Pick up a free copy at Harbor Center. Rare Bird Sighted - Slaty-Backed Gull (Larus Schistisagus)
In the first few days alone birders from around the state traveled to Grand Marais to enjoy this unique opportunity to view this extremely rare visitor to North America that usually confines itself to North Eastern Siberia and adjacent areas of the Asian Pacific Coast. More information and an additional photo of this gull and recent sightings of rare birds in Minnesoata can be found on the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union website at: http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl. Join onlineYou can join online using our secure Paypal form below. You may also use the form to make a donation. We can accept all major credit cards and electronic checks. |
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A first-ever sighting for Minnesota and a first-ever summer sighting for the
lower 48 sates of a Slaty-Backed Gull was made on Friday, July 21, 2006, at
about 6 PM, by Harbor Friends members and volunteers Ken and Molly Hoffman. This
outstanding addition to the list of many rare birds sighted in the area of the
Grand Marais, Minnesota harbor of Lake Superior was first seen along the East
Bay. It was frequenting the East Bay beach between the city owned park near
Artists' Point and the East Bay Hotel. The photo below, taken by Harbor Friends
member and volunteer Bruce Stahly, shows the Slaty-Backed Gull on the breakwall
near the East Bay Hotel on Sunday, July 23, 2006.
