MN Birders-
One of the great things about birding is the generosity of the birding community, members of which are almost always quick to share their time, knowledge, wisdom, good humor (and spotting scopes!). Special thanks to Steve Midthune for accompanying for a couple of hours yesterday at Tamarac NWR; Cleone Stewart for forwarding my email to some local birders; and Kelly Blackledge of the Tamarac NWR Visitors Center for forwarding a map and some recommendations. Some of the birds we saw (or heard) were: - pine warblers (lifer) - a red-necked grebe (lifer) - black terns (brief flyover heading away; also a lifer) - hooded mergansers (looked like a female and two juveniles) - chestnut-sided warblers - a black-and-white warbler - yellow warblers - American redstarts - common yellowthroats - white-breasted nuthatch - Eastern phoebe - Eastern wood pewees - purple finch (female at feeders) - hairy woodpecker plus the assorted Canada geese, red-winged blackbirds, common grackles, brown-headed cowbirds, robins, song sparrows, and chipping sparrows In the spirit of reciprocity, if any of you find yourself in Mexico City, where I normally make my home (just in Minneapolis temporarily for work and going back in late July), please write me here and I'll be happy to show you around and hook you up with a surprisingly robust birding community there. Best, David =============================== David Crow Skype: dbcrow Minneapolis, MN, USA Personal Web site: http://investigadores.cide.edu/crow/ UMN profile: <https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/news/paradox-mexico-professor-david-crow-university-minnesota>https://goo.gl/uQnXwb ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
