Here's how to help:Building owners, managers and employees can save
birds and energy by turning off unnecessary lights during spring and
fall migration. It's easy and the savings are there for everyone!
What can you do?Turn off exterior decorative lightingDim lobby and
atrium lightingTurn off interior lights - especially upper storiesWhen
should you do it?Between midnight and dawn
Spring: From March 15 to May 31Fall: From August 15 to October 31
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/nongame/projects/lightsout.html
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Subject: [mou-net] Migration Thursday night
From: James Williams <woodduc...@gmail.com>
To: <MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Date: Thursday, 09/03/2020 2:06 PM
A significant migration of songbirds and other bird species is
predicted for Minnesota tonight, Thursday, Sept. 3, by the Cornell Lab
of Ornithology.
The lab calls this a high-intensity migration, hundreds of thousands
to millions of birds depending on location. The map for the Twin
Cities and Minnesota indicates high traffic.
The prediction for the eastern half of the country is movement of 200
million individuals.
Assuming birds come to land as morning approaches, and many will to
rest and feed, birding Wednesday could be excellent, a big big day.
The alert arrived this morning via email from a Cornell service called
BirdCast. The site from which notice is sent is Blogtrottr. It is a
free subscription service offered in conjunction with Cornell’s
ebird local notification service.
For more information go to birdcast.info. For subscription information
go to blogtrottr.com
Blogtrottr also reports that purple finches are moving south out of
Canada, and could be feeder visitors in Minnesota this winter. Purple
finches are not regular here in any season.
Jim Williams
Wayzata
Birding blog at
startribune/wingnut
“You don’t start on anything without first consulting the birds.
.… clearly, we are your gods of prophecy.”
— from a play by Aristophanes, via the book ‘Birds in the
Ancient World’ by Jeremy Mynott
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