[mou] Minnetonka yard birds--snow bunting! red-HEADED woodpecker
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My brother, not a birder, called me to say there was a house finch sized =
bird, sitting on a mixed seed feeder, that had a pure, unmarked, white =
head and breast, the white extending fully down the back of the head, =
black back, and black and white wings. He said the white was bright =
purest white he had ever seen on a bird and the contrast with the black =
was striking. snow bunting?! Are there any other possibilities (albino =
goldfinch?) Is this unusual?
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Yesterday (fortunately, I was home, sick), I was surprised to see a pine =
siskin with the goldfinches and then a red-headed woodpecker flew in. It =
was very skittish, made a few passes at the feeders and after a few =
minutes, flew off. We now have seen 7 species of woodpeckers in the =
yard. I don't hold out much hope for the 2 northern species!=20
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Many female warblers yesterday-magnolia, blackburnian, chestnut sided, =
Wilson's, Cape May, redstart, and mourning.
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Along with the female scarlet tanager that has been visiting our orange =
feeders, it has been an interesting couple of days.
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Mike Engh
in a wooded neighborhood SW of the 394/494 intersection.
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font-family:Arial'My brother, not a birder, called me to say there was =
a house
finch sized bird, sitting on a mixed seed feeder, that had a pure, =
unmarked,
white head and breast, the white extending fully down the back of the =
head, black
back, and black and white wings. He said the white was bright purest =
white he
had ever seen on a bird and the contrast with the black was striking. =
snow
bunting?! Are
[mou] Warbler plumage question
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0838_01C4426F.C3DEFB30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Birded Pioneer Park in Princeton (Mille Lacs County) briefly this = morning - among the 10 warblers seen (best being a Canada) was a = (presumed) female Blackpoll with a wash of light yellow under her chin. = Cannot recall seeing this before, isn't this unusual for spring plumage? = Must admit it slowed the ID process for a while. Good birding! Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Mille Lacs Sherburne Counties --=_NextPart_000_0838_01C4426F.C3DEFB30 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1 META content=3DMSHTML 6.00.2800.1106 name=3DGENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=3D#ff DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Birded Pioneer Park in Princeton (Mille = Lacs=20 County) briefly this morning - among the 10 warblers seen (best being a = Canada)=20 was a (presumed) female Blackpoll withnbsp;anbsp;wash of light yellow = under=20 her chin.nbsp; Cannot recall seeing this before, isn't this unusual for = spring=20 plumage?nbsp; Must admit it slowed the ID process for a = while./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Good birding!/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Al Schirmacher/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Princeton, MN/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Mille Lacs amp; Sherburne=20 Counties/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_000_0838_01C4426F.C3DEFB30--
[mou] Request for bird identification
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I was wondering if anyone could identify a bird for me. This bird came to
my crabapple tree in Hastings on May 12th. That was the only day I saw him.
He was a bright, vivid yellow with no other markings. He had a broad orange
beak with a tad of black at the tip and had orange legs. I would guess his
size to be slightly smaller than a Chickadee. I'm not sure, but it appeared
he may have had some downy feathers.
David Cahlander has put two photographs I took of this bird on the web sites
below if you would like to help me identify the bird.
http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird1.JPG
http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird2.JPG
Thank you.
Linda Krueger
Hastings, MN
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[mou] Any Stilts left???
Howdy all, After returning home from out of state work.. Wondering if there are any Stilt updates Thanks Blaine
[mou] Request for bird identification
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Linda,
sure looks like a domestic canary! (I bred red-factor bronze
canaries for several years) If it is not an escaped domestic could it be
an aberrant American Goldfinch, lacking the melanin that creates dark
pigments?
Kelly
Linda Krueger wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could identify a bird for me. This bird
came to my crabapple tree in Hastings on May 12th. That was the only
day I saw him. He was a bright, vivid yellow with no other markings.
He had a broad orange beak with a tad of black at the tip and had
orange legs. I would guess his size to be slightly smaller than a
Chickadee. I'm not sure, but it appeared he may have had some downy
feathers.
David Cahlander has put two photographs I took of this bird on the web
sites below if you would like to help me identify the bird.
http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird1.JPG
http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird2.JPG
Thank you.
Linda Krueger
Hastings, MN
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Linda,
brnbsp;nbsp;nbsp; sure looks like a domestic canary! (I bred red-factor
bronze canaries for several years) If it is not an escaped domestic could
it be an aberrant American Goldfinch, lacking the melanin that creates
dark pigments?
pKelly
pLinda Krueger wrote:
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[mou] Ross Goose - Benton County
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Tonight I found a Ross Goose at the Gilman sewage ponds in Benton
County. The bird had a yellow neck band with an upright A and the
number 87 turned sideways with the 8 above the 7 (or was it
L8?). Does anybody know who to contact about the band?
The bird was still there when I left, so I would expect it will probably
still be there in the morning.
Not too much else of special interest there. Two Wilson's Phalaropes
and a Black Tern and lots of swallows.
Herb Dingmann
St. Cloud
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[mou] Where are the juncos?
Most of the juncos came through here (Schroeder, near the lake in Cook Co.) last month, about the same time as the Fox Sparrows. We had hundreds some days. By the time the White-throated and White-crowned sparrows showed up in numbers, most of the juncos had left. We still have one or two at our feeders, but they may be nesting locally. White-crowned sparrows seem to be staying longer this year. With the weather we've had, lots of lake wind and rarely warmer than 50, lots of birds are hanging around the feeders. We have had at least three different Baltimore orioles eating fruit. Wish they would nest near here, but they seem to head inland or up to Canada. Good wave of warblers today when the wind switched to southwest. Mourning, blackpoll, blackburnian, chestnut-sided, many redstarts. I was trying to work in the garden but kept getting distracted by birds. Tough life. Also have a red-headed woodpecker hanging about, eight or so evening grosbeaks today, a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks remaining, one clay-colored sparrow, one savannah sparrow. Harris' and Lincoln's not seen since last week. Canada warbler here on Sunday. Birch and aspens just getting leaves here since Friday, days behind Grand Marais area and weeks behind Duluth. Carol Jim Tveekrem - Original Message - From: aabier aab...@earthlink.net To: mou-...@cbs.umn.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: [mou] Where are the juncos? | Where are the juncos? This is the end of our third year here. I think | that the White-crowned Sparrows and Juncos arrive together in the | spring then disappear, then come through together again in the fall on | their way south. This year we have a number of White-crowns, not a lot | but always some. The first one arrived 5/11. I have seen exactly one | Junco, on 5/14. I haven't seen Juncos on my walks around the lake or | the rest of the town either. Any idea where they are? We do have a | lot of Chipping Sparrows, as always, lovely tiny little birdies. | And I saw another Pine Siskin today - are they usually gone by now? | And I see there was a late redpoll somewhere this week, and a snow | bunting - maybe they think it's still winter, feels like it anyway, | surely not like late May. | Anne Bier | Virginia | | ___ | mou-net mailing list | mou-...@cbs.umn.edu | http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net |
