[mou-net] Snowy owl - Duluth

2013-12-13 Thread Annette Riley
A snowy owl was seen this evening around 5 pm while heading north on interstate 35 between 40th ave west and 27th ave west. It was perched on a pole on the lake side of the freeway. Annette Riley Duluth Sent from my iPhone Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-n

[mou-net] Snowy Owl Benton County

2013-12-13 Thread Betsy Beneke
At 4:30 this afternoon I found a snowy owl on Benton CR 59, one block north of it's intersection with Benton CR 13 (Little Rock Lake Rd NE).  The bird was sitting on top of a power pole just down from house number 10290.  CR 13 runs east-west between Hwys 25 and 10. Betsy Beneke St. Cloud

[mou-net] Northern Hawk Owl, St Louis County

2013-12-13 Thread Butch Ukura
A Northern Hawk Owl was seen by Warren Nelson and Butch Ukura at approx 12 noon today. The location was 7.5 miles west of Floodwood, Mn on HWY 2 on the south side of the road. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-ne

[mou-net] Swans Blue Earth Cty

2013-12-13 Thread john c nelson
A few minutes ago as I walked down our driveway to retrieve the mail, I was a bit startled to see a pair of swans fly over the neighbor's grove across the road from us. They were flying low and dropped down toward the fields to the south and out of sight. No idea whether trumpeter or tundra. Seem

[mou-net] Snowy Owls in Stearns County.

2013-12-13 Thread Frank Gosiak
Its been a kinda different year for birding. Two more Snowy Owl reports. This morning at the intersections of 215th ave. and 430th street and at River street and cty road 3, two more owls were found. This is in Northern Stearns County near Holdingford. If someone likes cruising the country this is

[mou-net] Vega Gull? Dakota Co. 2011

2013-12-13 Thread
Hi All— Karl Bardon et al. recently posted an excellent photo of a possible Vega Gull in Duluth on the “Recently Seen” MOU page: http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl. I believe a photo I took in January 2011 is also of a Vega Gull. This photo, for the record, is on my blog and shows both a dark-ma

[mou-net] Townsend's Solitaire - Carver County 12/13

2013-12-13 Thread Doug Kieser
Hi, One Townsend's Solitaire; Lake Minnewashta Regional Park at 10:30 this morning. Feeding on buckthorn along the walking path about 100 yards past the boat access 1 parking, then flew to a treetop another 25 yards down the trail. Doug Kieser Minneapolis

[mou-net] King Eider still present

2013-12-13 Thread Kim R Eckert
Craig Mandel just called at 9:30 am today (Friday) to report that he and others are looking at the female King Eider. It is now just E of 23rd Ave East, but there is a path leading E from the end of 23rd along the lakeshore which currently provides the best viewing. Craig says at least one of th

[mou-net] 3 Snowy Owls

2013-12-13 Thread Frank Gosiak
The third snowy owl located in Morrison County this year was spotted by Gerald Yourczek (Holdingford science teacher) at the intersection of County 21 (30th street) and 100th ave. 1 mile south and 2 miles west of Bowlus. Busy area for owls this year. We found a Long Eared a week ago not far from t

[mou-net] Second snowy owl at Royalton

2013-12-13 Thread Betsy Beneke
Sherburne Refuge volunteer, Mary Carlson, found a second snowy owl west of Royalton, Morrison County, yesterday afternoon.  She shared an image of the bird with me, and it has quite a bit of brown spotting on it, and is much more wary than the bird I saw on Wednesday, which was mostly white with

[mou-net] Mike Hendrickson New Email

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Hendrickson
My new email address is: michaelleehendrick...@gmail.com I am no longer accepting email at mlhendrick...@yahoo.com Thank You. Mike Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html