[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, October 31, 2003

This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, October 31, 2003 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. With the coming of the first snow, there is no doubt that winter birding is soon upon

[mou] Re: Whooper Swans

If the records committee even considered this record it would be very misleading. As many birders in the Twin cities are aware there was a breeder in, I believe Washignton County or one of the other eastern counties, that has allowed young birds to take flight before clipping their wings. If he i

[mou] Whooper Swan/records committees and you

There was one piece missing in my previous posting about the importance of records committees and that is - if there are no records there is nothing for the committee to do. I think the importance of written records sometimes get lost in this day of instant internet messaging and digital photograp

[mou] MOU RBA 30 October 2003

--_-1144557178==_ma Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday October 30th. The SAGE THRASHER is still being reported in Grand Marais, Cook County. It is most often seen in the campground along the cre

[mou] good backyard birding project

Been doing it for longer than I been in MOU.. I have the last 5 years of my data on my WEB pages.. http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Bird_Pictures/andrews_birding_pages_index.htm Andrew -Original Message- From: mou-net-ad...@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-ad...@cbs.umn.edu]on Behalf Of Jim Will

[mou] 2 Jaegers at Park Point (likely Parasitic)

Today, at around 3:45 pm, I saw 2 Jaegers, that were likely Parasitic, but due to the fact that I've never seen a Jaeger good enough to identify it and add it to my life list, I won't be making a guarantee. Anyway, amongst raging ENE winds and blowing rain, freezing my face off, I saw one adult

[mou] Duluth RBA 10/30/03

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, October 30, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. Kim Eckert reported a female plumage LAZULI BUNTING from Cook County on the 26th. The bird was near mile marker 121, 11 miles east of Grand Marais or 2 miles east of Paradise Beach.

[mou] Whooper Swan and records committee

While I have not heard from any current member of the records committee I have heard from a past member who assures me that there is no policy of blanket rejection of Whooper Swan records. I'm glad to hear that. Those who read my message carefully (as this individual did) even recognized that I

[mou] good backyard birding project

Announcement from Cornell LAb of Ornithology - in case some Minnesota birders might be interested. This is bird science accessible to us all. Jim Williams, Wayzata BIRD WATCHERS NEEDED FOR PROJECT FEEDERWATCH In the next few months large numbers of redpolls, crossbills, grosbeaks, nuthatches an

[mou] Boreal Owl boxes

--part1_95.349c6f26.2cd28754_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to Helen Tucker, Mike Hendrickson and Mark Alt, the Boreal Owl boxes have departed my Batt House and are on their way to Bill Lane. Thanks, too, to Chris Benson for his of

[mou] Why isn't anyone getting excited about the Whooper Swan?

_IF_ it is truly the attitude of the records committee then any Whooper Swan in MN is automatically considered an escapee then I have to question their logic. So, the following rant on my part only holds if the MN records committee refuses to review records of Whooper Swan. First let me say that