[mou] feeder birds and hawks in Murray County
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C3F0C3.F3B065FE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 -Original Message- From: Timmerman, Janet Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:37 AM To: mou-...@cbs.umn.edu Subject: feeder birds and hawks in Murray County Redpolls were being seen in Murray County last week-end. A friend had four or five of them at his feeders. He also has 10 tree sparrows that come regularly to his ground feeder. On Monday near Current Lake in the north part of the county, there was a Rough Legged Hawk in a cottonwood there. He was patient enough for me to scramble out of my car and dive into the back to find my binoculars. Janet Timmerman Information Officer/Community Educator Center for Rural and Regional Studies, ST 201A Southwest Minnesota State University 1501 State Street Marshall, MN 56258 507-537-6288 --_=_NextPart_001_01C3F0C3.F3B065FE Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106 name=GENERATOR/HEAD BODY DIVnbsp;/DIV DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=leftFONT face=Tahoma size=2-Original Message-BRBFrom:/B Timmerman, Janet BRBSent:/B Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:37 AMBRBTo:/B mou-...@cbs.umn.eduBRBSubject:/B feeder birds and hawks in Murray CountyBRBR/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=279523117-11022004Redpollsnbsp;were being seen in Murray Countynbsp;last week-end. A friend had four or five of themnbsp;at his feeders. He also has 10 tree sparrows that come regularly to his ground feeder.nbsp;/SPAN/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=279523117-11022004On Monday near Current Lake in the north part of the county, there was a Rough Legged Hawk in a cottonwood there. He was patient enough for me to scramble out of my car and dive into the back to find my binoculars./SPAN/FONT/DIV PFONT face=TahomaJanet Timmerman/FONT BRFONT face=TahomaInformation Officer/Community Educator/FONT BRFONT face=TahomaCenter for Rural and Regional Studies, ST 201A/FONT BRFONT face=TahomaSouthwest Minnesota State University/FONT BRFONT face=Tahoma1501 State Street/FONT BRFONT face=TahomaMarshall, MN 56258/FONT BRFONT face=Tahoma507-537-6288/FONT /P DIVnbsp;/DIV/BODY/HTML --_=_NextPart_001_01C3F0C3.F3B065FE--
[mou] Mourning Doves - Goodhue County
On the ground beneath our thistle seed feeder now are five MOURNING DOVES - the first we have seen this season. We are on a farm between Cannon Falls and Kenyon. We also have PILEATED, RED BELLIED, HAIRY, AND DOWNY WOODPECKERS, A NORTHERN FLICKER, WHITE BREASTED RED BREASTED NUTHATCHES, FIVE PAIRS OF CARDINALS, HOUSE FINCHES, an occasional PURPLE FINCH and COMMON REDPOLL plus the usual but interesting CHICADEES, DARK EYED JUNCOS, AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, BLUE JAYS, AND HOUSE SPARROWS. At Christmas we looked out at our flowering crabapple tree to see a male RING-NECKED PHEASANT awkwardly perched in the tree eating the tiny frozen apples - probably as close as we'll ever come to a partridge-in-a- pear tree! Alden Margaret McCutchan
[mou] Counting Birds
When mou net contributors get caught up in what and how to count in approve= d ways, I am reminded of Mary Oliver's lovely poem: Snowy Night =A0 Last night, an owl in the blue dark tossed an indeterminate number =A0 of carefully shaped sounds into the world, in which, a quarter of a mile away, I happened to be standing. =A0 I couldn=B9t tell which one it was =AD the barred or the great-horned ship of the air =AD =A0 it was that distant.=A0 But, anyway, aren=B9t there moments that are better than knowing something, and sweeter?=A0 Snow was falling, =A0 so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more =A0 than prettiness.=A0 I suppose if this were someone else=B9s story they would have insisted on=A0 knowing whatever is knowable =AD would have hurried =A0 over the fields to name it =AD the owl, I mean. But it=B9s mine, this poem of the night, and I just stood there, listening and holding out =A0 my hands to the soft glitter falling through the air.=A0=A0 I love this world, but not for its answers. And I wish good luck to the owl, =A0 whatever its name =AD and I wish great welcome to the snow, whatever its severe and comfortless and beautiful meaning. =A0 ~ Mary Oliver ~ =A0 =A0
[mou] Red-shouldered Hawk, Hennepin Co.
Today a little after noon at the Bass Ponds in Bloomington, Hennepin County there was an Adult Red-shouldered Hawk perched in the trees overlooking the open water filled with Mallards near the beaver lodge. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Cty con...@mycidco.com
[mou] Counting Birds
--part1_127.3abcaf3d.2d5c34e9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Birders Who Read Poetry-- Mary Oliver's poem is charming, but she is showing off. Note that she is telling the reader that she KNOWS the difference between the call of a Great Horned Owl and a Barred Owl--she just doesn't choose to get close enough to know for sure. I think alot of birders who aren't so sure of the difference would want to make the effort to get closer to hear clearly, or even to try to see if the owl had ear tufts or not, but Oliver is content to meditate on the snow. Her (artistic) choice. Here is one of my poems which, though perhaps a lesser effort, is meant to be a fun poem about listing, or at least KNOWING what you are seeing: CAPE MAY POINT Snapshots of sun silhouette scoters close to shore. We pick off an eider with the scope. Farther out, gannets wheel and dive, show fish how to fly. We watch the sea-spears at 30 power, wind, bird, waves, blowing straight in our eyes. Good birding (listing even) Warren Woessner --part1_127.3abcaf3d.2d5c34e9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTMLFONT FACE=3Darial,helveticaHTMLFONT SIZE=3D2 PTSIZE=3D10 FAMILY= =3DSANSSERIF FACE=3DLucida Sans Unicode LANG=3D0Dear Birders Who Read= Poetry--BR BR Mary Oliver's poem is charming, but she is showing off. Note that she is tel= ling the reader that she KNOWS the difference between the call of a Great Ho= rned Owl and a Barred Owl--she just doesn't choose to get close enough to kn= ow for sure.BR I think alot of birders who aren't so sure of the difference would want to m= ake the effort to get closer to hear clearly, or even to try to see if the o= wl had ear tufts or not, but Oliver is content to meditate on the snow.nbsp= ; Her (artistic) choice.BR Here is one of my poems which, though perhaps a lesser effort, is meant to b= e a fun poem about listing, or at least KNOWING what you are seeing:BR BR CAPE MAY POINTBR BR Snapshots of sunBR silhouette scotersBR close to shore.BR We pick off an eiderBR with the scope.BR Farther out, gannetsBR wheel and dive,BR show fish how to fly.BR We watch the sea-spearsBR at 30 power, wind,BR bird, waves, blowingBR straight in our eyes.BR BR Good birding (listing even)BR Warren Woessner/FONT/HTML --part1_127.3abcaf3d.2d5c34e9_boundary--
[mou] Birding at birdfeeders--a solution?
Many times when I'm out birding, I see a frenzy of birds at someone's feeder and I would love to take a look, but I don't want to upset anyone by staring at their yard through binoculars. So I had a thought--what if there was some way to know that the owner of the feeder was OK with you checking out their birds? Does anyone out there think it would be practical to put some kind of sign on or near their feeders that says Birders welcome or some kind of symbol? I think if birding organizations came up with something standardized and got their members to display them, eventually it would catch on with some of the non-birding public. Maybe some organization somewhere is already doing something like this... Just one of my harebrained ideas =) Shawn Conrad Itasca County - This mail sent from Znet Telecom webmail Znet Telecom http://www.2z.net
