[mou] 21 waterfowl species at L. Byllesby, Dakota Co.
--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This morning (Mar. 12) from 8-9 am. I found 21 species of waterfowl at the west end of the lake including a flock of 700 Greater White-fronted Geese that were departing as I arrived. I saw no Snow or Ross's Geese. Total species included singles of Black Duck, Wood Duck, Green-winged Teal, Greater Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser, and Cackling Goose. A prairie race Merlin was at 180th and Emery watching over a nervous flock of Lapland Longspurs. I'm not putting my shovel away just yet. Jim Eagan, Dakota County --=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII HTML style=FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Times New RomanHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=windows-1251 META content=MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802 name=GENERATOR/HEAD BODY P DIVThis morning (Mar. 12) from 8-9 am. I found 21 species of waterfowl at the west end of the lake including a flock of 700 Greater White-fronted Geese that were departing as I arrived. I saw no Snow or Ross's Geese. Total species included singles of Black Duck, Wood Duck, Green-winged Teal, Greater Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser, and Cackling Goose./DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVAnbsp;prairie racenbsp;Merlin was at 180th and Emery watching over a nervous flock of Lapland Longspurs./DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVI'm not putting my shovel away just yet. BRBRJim/DIV DIVEagan, Dakota County/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV P/P/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8--
[mou] New arrivals at my house in far NE Wright County...
Haven't been out birding much at all this year, but in the last few days I've had the following show up at my home in Otsego: Red-winged Blackbirds (several more to join the one that overwintered in my yard) Song Sparrows (2 weeks earlier than they showed up in my yard last year. This year: 3/12, last year: 3/30) House Finches (They don't seem to winter in my yard...but they arrived yesterday, paired up) Mourning Dove (1 flew by this morning) American Tree Sparrows (They disappeared for a while, but returned in numbers yesterday) No flyovers of Greater White-fronted Geese yet, but hundreds of Canada Geese flew over yesterday... Chris Fagyal Otsego Wright County.
[mou] Red-winged blkbds Ramsey Co.
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[mou] Lake Byllesby Waterfowl Question
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0038_01C645E9.75170FE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How long are these waterfowl going to keep flying in to Lake Byllesby? = I'm asking becuase our family is considering a day trip there two = weekends from now. Thanks~ Alyssa DeRubeis Hennipin County --=_NextPart_000_0038_01C645E9.75170FE0 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 6.00.2900.2802 name=3DGENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=3D#ff DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2How long are these waterfowl going to = keep flying=20 in to Lake Byllesby? I'm asking becuase our family is considering a day = trip=20 there two weekends from now. Thanks~/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Alyssa DeRubeis/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Hennipin = County/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_000_0038_01C645E9.75170FE0--
[mou] First spring bird...
We had our first red wing blackbird of the year at our sunflower feeder all afternoon! --- WebMail from Chaska.net
[mou] Pine city - Sandhill Crane
Single bird flying over the 35w overpass. First for me this year
[mou] 1213 Bald Eagles at Lake Pepin
There were very impressive numbers of birds on Lake Pepin today. I counted 1,213 Bald Eagles between Reads Landing and Wacouta, which represents the highest reported count for the state. Also present were 2499 Common Mergansers (although tens of thousands gather here in fall, this is a new high count for spring), 59 Hooded Mergansers, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers, approximately 500 Common Goldeneyes, and several hundred mixed Aythya divers. Gulling was excellent in Goodhue County at the north end of Lake Pepin and at Colvill Park, including 1200 Ring-billeds, 368 Herring, 3 adult Thayers, a second-cycle Glaucous, a first-cycle Iceland, and two Lesser Black-backeds: a third-cycle and an adult. Both the Iceland and the third-cycle Lesser Black-backed were seen from the rest area at the north end of the lake near Hansens Harbor, while the Glaucous and the adult Lesser Black-backed were at Colvill Park. The first-cycle Iceland is a different individual than the one present in the Twin Cities last January. Karl Bardon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[mou] Photo website update
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I have updated my photo website with two more photos of the Gyrfalcon from
Hwy 47 in Hastings and photos taken today of Ring-billed Gulls from Colvill
Park in Hastings. The Gull photos are the first ones I've ever taken of the
gulls fishing and so I'm excited about that. There were hundreds there
today and enough fish, it seemed, for everyone. There were Bald Eagles
there still (I didn't take time to count how may but could readily see five
perched in trees when I arrived there late in the afternoon). And, there
are two Bald Eagle nests there both having an Eagle sitting on the nest.
I did revisit the Great Horned Owl nest in Lakeville yesterday (on Dodd
Boulevard) and the female owl was sitting on the nest and the male was
perched across the field. I wouldn't have known the female owl was in the
nest if it hadn't stretched its wings upward shortly after I arrived. After
that, she sunk down far enough into the nest that she was no longer visible
at all. Crows were not pestering the owls this time as they were
previously.
I want to thank those that have emailed me in private giving me directions
to great photo ops! I could not be getting the photos I'm getting without
the help of all of you out there :-)
Linda Krueger
Visit my photo web site at:
www.tc.umn.edu/~lkrueger
Come back often and enjoy!
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that.nbsp; There
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everyone.nbsp; There
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getting
[mou] Update from Aitkin County
I looked around Aitkin County this past weekend and came up with a few interesting things. 2 SNOWY OWLS ( one along C.R.1 north of Aitkin and the other along 310th Ave. just south of Palisade--I received a message that a third snowy was found dead along C.R.1, apparently electrocuted) 4 BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES along C.R.1 Several COMMON REDPOLLS, EVENING GROSBEAKS, PINE GROSBEAKS,SNOW BUNTINGS and a flock of about 60 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS on the south edge of Aitkin. A few new spring migrants: flocks of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, a dozen KESTRELS, several NORTHERN HARRIERS, RED-TAILED HAWKS, dozens of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS ( 16 in one field along C.R.1 just north of the diversion channel), CANADA GEESE Warren Nelson
[mou] L. Bylessby Dakota Co.
Birded Dakota Co. late Saturday afternoon, ending up at Lake Bylessby. It was pretty birdy with large flocks of Blackbirds flying. Lake Bylessby was quiet. Thirteen species of waterfowl were counted there with a three more added at 140th Street. the most common specie was probably the Common Merganser, although large swirls of ducks were seen to the south and assumed to be Mallards over the farm fields. None of the large goose flocks were around when I arrived at about 4pm. however two flocks of about 50 Snow Geese each and a third flock of over 200 White Fronted Geese with about 20 Snow Geese flew over between 5pm and 5:30. Other birds of interest seen: Northern (?) Shrike seen at the same location where I found one two weeks ago: south of Hastings at Hwy316 and Nicolai rd (CR91). Great Blue Heron looking out of place on the ice at 180th. Cedar Waxwings Eastern Bluebirds - 2 males at 140th. Killdeer heard at L. Bylessby. Sharp-shinned Hawk Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net
[mou] Gyrfalcon in Dakota County
Hello all, The Gyrfalcon that has been previously spotted in Dakota County was back in his usual spot today - perched on the poles right near mile mark 216 on Highway 55 a few miles west of Hastings. I got some good photos. It appears to be quite brown in color. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dobak/111692648/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dobak/111692643/ Thanks to everyone who posted the sightings on this bird. This is the best sighting I have had since I started birding. Derek Bakken St. Paul, MN
