To help out a little here is a site I use all the time to know when sunrise/set will be at any location I plan on birding..
http://www.sunrisesunset.com/usa/ For MN specifically.. http://www.sunrisesunset.com/usa/Minnesota.asp Andrew I'm currently looking for my next career.. Please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlongtin I welcome advice, suggestions, and an opportunity to network.. Thanks.. -- Andrew Longtin Corcoran (Hennepin Co.) Minnesota See my WEB pages at: www.birderguy.com Email: birder...@comcast.net Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory Supporter http://www.hawkridge.org Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Member http://www.moumn.org Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) Member http://www.hmana.org Cornell Lab Member (PFW) http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:mou-...@lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of linda whyte Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:29 PM To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] A "Swift Sit" reminder Here's your chance to take part in a fun bit of citizen-science; this upcoming weekend, Friday-Saturday-Sunday, August 7-9 is MN Audubon's first annual Chimney Swift Count, with a follow-up to come in September. It takes as little as an hour, on just one of those nights of your choosing. It's easy enough. Park yourself for the 30 minutes on either side of sunset (8:37 as of last night, a few minutes earlier by the weekend), with a clear view of any chimney or smokestack that's been seen to have the little "flying cigars" entering or exiting, or an area where the flock has been swirling to feed, if you have no other evidence. When the birds bed down for the night, they drop straight down into the chimney, and that's when to count. If you have partners, it helps to spread out a bit, to get different perspectives on the chimney; you can compare numbers and average afterwards, to report. For more information you can contact our co-ordinator, Ron Windingstad at rwindings...@audubon.org, or to download participation forms go to http://mnaudubon.org/events/714. If you want explanatory brochures to satisfy curious onlookers or nervous neighbors, here's a link to a site with brochures you can download and print: https://mail.google.com/a/moosewoods.us/#inbox/122e0b5d9503d60c Good luck, and have fun! Linda Whyte ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
