[mou] Photo of White-wing Dove
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0054_01C68A03.6DF4C2D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This link should take you to a fuzzy photo of the White-wing Dove that was recently seen in Crane Lake, near the Canadian border in St Louis County. The dove has not been spotted since Saturday. Click on the link below ww http://midwest1.iserver.net/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=wildlifei d=ww_dove_cropped dove or use this address: http://midwest1.iserver.net/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=wildlifeid =ww_dove_cropped Dee Kuder Bear Island Crane Lake, MN --=_NextPart_000_0054_01C68A03.6DF4C2D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable html xmlns:o=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office = xmlns:w=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word = xmlns:st1=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags = xmlns=3Dhttp://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40; head meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii meta name=3DGenerator content=3DMicrosoft Word 11 (filtered medium) o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3DState/ o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3DCity/ o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3DPlaceType/ o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3DPlaceName/ o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3Dplace/ !--[if !mso] style st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } /style ![endif]-- style !-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman;} span.EmailStyle19 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style /head body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple div class=3DSection1 p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'This link should take you to a fuzzy photo of the = White-wing Dove that was recently seen in st1:PlaceName = w:st=3DonCrane/st1:PlaceName st1:PlaceType w:st=3DonLake/st1:PlaceType, near the Canadian border in st1:place = w:st=3Donst1:PlaceName w:st=3DonSt Louis/st1:PlaceName st1:PlaceType = w:st=3DonCounty/st1:PlaceType/st1:place.o:p/o:p/span/font= /p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'The dove has not been spotted since Saturday. = o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'Click on the link below o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'a href=3Dhttp://midwest1.iserver.net/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=3D= wildlifeamp;id=3Dww_dove_croppedww dove/ao:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'or use this address:nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; http://midwest1.iserver.net/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=3Dwildli= feamp;id=3Dww_dove_croppedo:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'o:pnbsp;/o:p/span/font/p pfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'Dee Kuder/span/fontfont size=3D2span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'o:p/o:p/span/font/p pst1:place w:st=3Donst1:PlaceName w:st=3Donfont size=3D2 = face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'Bear/span/font/st1:Plac= eNamefont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial' st1:PlaceType w:st=3DonIsland/st1:PlaceType/span/font/st1:placefont = size=3D2span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'o:p/o:p/span/font/p pst1:place w:st=3Donst1:City w:st=3Donfont size=3D2 = face=3DArialspan style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'Crane = Lake/span/font/st1:Cityfont size=3D2 face=3DArialspan = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial', st1:State w:st=3DonMN/st1:State/span/font/st1:placefont = size=3D2span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'o:p/o:p/span/font/p
[mou] Recently Seen - American Bittern (Big Stone)
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[mou] Dickcissels, Thanks
A number of the listservs have been discussing the tremendous influx of Dickcissels, let me add my voice to it - we have at least ten Dickcissels in our Mille Lacs neighborhood (relatively new development, still a lot of tall grasses) - and they are calling all over the Sherburne Refuge Auto Tour. Contrast this with a single Dickcissel present in 2004 2005 in our five acre yard, and none (personally) heard along the tour during that same time frame. Thanks for the excellent response to our Cerulean inquiry yesterday - we not only have detailed Murphy-Hanrehan information (Cerulean Hooded), but also Lake Maria (Cerulean) and areas around Mankato (Kentucky, Cerulean, Bell's Vireo). Now it's decision time! Good birding to all. Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Mille Lacs Sherburne Counties
[mou] Least Bittern- Hennepin County
htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV class=RTEWhile birding at Old Cedar Avenue bridge thisnbsp;AM encountered 2 Least Bitterns at the observation deck to the west of the parking lot./DIV DIV class=RTEnbsp;/DIV DIV class=RTEnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Jim Otto/DIV/divbr clear=allhr a href=http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2743??PS=47575; target=_topBe one of the first to try Windows Live Mail /a /html
[mou] Probable Mississippi kite- Kandiyohi co.
Friends...do note the word probable in the heading, but all indications point towards a tentative ID of adult male MIKI. Yesterday early evening (6:30 ish), while working in the flower bed, I heard the martins making their alarm call. I looked up expecting to see the coopers hawk that harasses and dines on my martins, but all I saw was a nighthawk...wait, that's not a nighthawk. Mind goes into fast forward mode and I'm trying to make this bird fit a normal ID, but I can't. The bird was fairly dark (I'm looking almost right up at it so it would have been casting a shadow on its underside). The wings were angled very much like a falcon, but it wasn't a falcon. It had a completely black, unbanded tail that was quite squared off. Underside of wings were dark but not black, like tail. Underside (belly) was a darker shade of uniform color- no barring or banding. I did not get a look at the head or top of wings. I ONLY SAW THE BIRD BRIEFLY- about 4 seconds. The whole time looking at parts of the bird, trying to make sense of it. As it disappeared over the trees (it was gliding NE, about 90 degrees off a stiff NW wind over the edge of the lake), I exclaimed...ok I loudly exclaimed to my wife, that's a kite. I ran down to the dock (other side of trees) to try and see it again. But as luck, or lack thereof, would have it, the bird had turned and was working its way back over the yard. I saw it a second time, for about 2 seconds, before it flew west along the lake, just over the treetops. My wife, who was still in the yard, had a much better look at it the second time. She said, that wasn't a coopers hawk. Of course I immediately asked her about a bazillion questions (maybe 2 bazillion, I can't keep track after I run out of fingers). The main thing she saw that I didn't was that as the bird headed NW (more towards the sun), it looked much lighter, almost white, on the underside. I called my friend Ron Erpelding, told him what I had seen and asked a question. If kites are insect eaters, why would the martins be alarmed by it? One of his books indicated MIKI will eat swifts and smaller swallows. There was also a major dragonfly hatch yesterday and those buggers were everywhere at the time of the sighting. Every indication to me suggests kite, unless someone can suggest another plausible ID. I worked this morning from about 6-10:00 but hung around the yard the rest of the day...hoping. At one time I heard the blue jays we don't like you here chatter about half a block away. When I investigated, I found a male coopers hawk (waiting for tasty martins, no doubt) perched high in a cottonwood. I should also note Ron and I searched for the probable kite for about 45 minutes after the sighting, along the lake and down into the nearby cemetery, about half a mile away. The bird was NOT relocated. I MIGHT go chasing the least tern tomorrow (Thurs), but welcome questions (via phone if you need answers soon). Randy Frederickson Willmar, Kandiyohi county 320 231-1291
[mou] Douglas Osprey/ Felton birds/ Grey Cloud Carolina Wren (correction)
Went birding with my two sons Alex and Jesse Sunday and Monday (6/4 6/5). Saw a pair of OSPREY near the farmstead grove on the East side of Lake Irene North of Miltona, MN on Sunday. Monday started with a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE on the wire along Clay 26 between MN 9 and the longspur road. We saw a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES copulate in the cottonwoods along the south end of the longspur road. We had fantastic looks at a CHESNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR on the fence and another larking further off. We saw many MARBLED GODWITS buzzing the car and one with two young crossing the longspur road. THREE other male ORCHARD ORIOLES were in the environs of the farm house and N of there. LARK SPARROWS were across the road from the gravel pit lake north of Clay 108 on the way to CLAY 34. Heard and saw many CLAY-COLORED and GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, heard only one LECONTES SPARROW. We failed to find the Snowy Owl, Henslows or Bairds Sparrows. We also heard and saw several UPLAND SANDPIPERS, including some new calls (to us.) Grant County had two pairs of COMMON LOONS with young but we couldn't scare up any interesting herons in the early afternoon on Monday. The CAROLINA WREN reported earlier by my son Jesse was at 10300 Grey Cloud Island Trail NOT at 1300 Grey Cloud Island Trail. John Ellis- St. Paul 5/7/06
[mou] General Mills Nature Preserve Shorebirds (Hennepin)
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0026_01C68A73.2D9A0AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I birded along the mudflat/pond in the General Mills Nature Preserve in = Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. from 7:30-8:15. Of course, the most abundant = shorebird was the KILLDEER (including a baby, very cute!) However, there = were also 4-5 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS throughout the mudflat. I also found a = single SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, I don't know why it was all alone. On the = west side of the mudflat, there was a pair of (lesbian?) female HOODED = MERGANSERS. There were also two families of Mallards. There was a pair = of GREAT EGRETS (perhaps nesting.) Watching over all the commotion was a = RED-TAILED HAWK, which I never saw leave his perch. I saw a pair of = CEDAR WAXWINGS, and heard a WARBLING VIREO (and maybe a Red-eyed Vireo, = too.) If anyone wants directions, please e-mail me. Good birding! Alyssa DeRubeis Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. --=_NextPart_000_0026_01C68A73.2D9A0AE0 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 6.00.2900.2873 name=3DGENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=3D#ff DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2I birded along the mudflat/pond in the = General=20 Mills Nature Preserve in Golden Valley, Hennepin Co.nbsp;from = 7:30-8:15. Of=20 course, the most abundant shorebird was the KILLDEER (including a baby, = very=20 cute!) However, there were also 4-5 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS throughout the = mudflat. I=20 also found a singlenbsp;SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, I don't know why it was = all=20 alone. On the west side of the mudflat, there was a pair of (lesbian?)=20 femalenbsp;HOODED MERGANSERS. There were also two families of Mallards. = There=20 was a pair of GREAT EGRETS (perhaps nesting.) Watching over all the = commotion=20 was a RED-TAILED HAWK, which I never saw leave his perch. I saw a pair = of CEDAR=20 WAXWINGS, and heard a WARBLING VIREO (and maybe a Red-eyed Vireo, too.) = If=20 anyone wants directions, please e-mail me. Good birding!/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Alyssa DeRubeis/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Golden Valley, Hennepin=20 Co./FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_000_0026_01C68A73.2D9A0AE0--
[mou] WEKI, BOGY, Dakota Co.
--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Ok, I know everyone hates alpha codes...but I couldn't resist. While golfing with Laura tonight at Southern Hills Golf Course (one mile north of Farmington on Hi 3), I hit a stellar 7 iron to the green on hole #11, a par 3. A Westen Kingbird (WEKI) immediately descended on the ball but, realizing it was not edible, flew up to a small spruce tree. As we approached the green, the WEKI flew out into adjacent fence row and continued to aerial feed. I then proceeded to 3-putt for a BOGY. Green fees are quite reasonable if you want to look for this bird. Twilight rates (cheapest) begin at 3:00pm. It is dead center in the middle of the otherwise inaccessible section. Of minor interest...at this same hole in previous years, I have recorded Swainson's Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Brewer's Blackbird, Baird's Sandpiper, Upland Sandpiper (vocal only), and yes, my one and only hole in one!! This is the ONLY reason I continue to prusue this draconian game. 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 6.00.2900.2873 name=GENERATOR/HEAD BODY P DIVOk, I know everyone hates alpha codes...but I couldn't resist. While golfing with Laura tonight at Southern Hills Golf Course (one mile north of Farmington on Hi 3), I hit a stellar 7 iron to the green on hole #11, a par 3. A Westen Kingbird (WEKI) immediately descended on the ball but, realizing it was not edible, flew up to a small spruce tree.nbsp; As we approached the green, the WEKI flew out into adjacent fence row and continued to aerial feed. I then proceeded to 3-putt for a BOGY. /DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVGreen fees are quite reasonable if you want to look for this bird. Twilight rates (cheapest) begin at 3:00pm. It is dead center in the middle of the otherwise inaccessible section. /DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVOf minor interest...at this same hole in previous years, I have recorded Swainson's Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Brewer's Blackbird, Baird's Sandpiper, Upland Sandpiper (vocal only), and yes, my one and only hole in one!! This is the ONLY reason I continue to prusue this draconian game./DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVJim/DIV DIVEagan, Dakota County/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV P/P/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8--
[mou] Freeborn County, Albert Lea, Myre-Big Island State Park
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0046_01C68A7E.4FF70920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stopped on my way back from DesMoines at about 6:30 Pm. Just past the entrance to the Park is a left hand turn into the campground. I stopped next to the open field at the sound of Dickcissel's singing. Observed the following over about 45 minutes: Bobolink - 25+ Dickcissel - 5-10 White Pelicans - 2 flying Marsh Wren - 1 Sedge Wren - 5 or 6. Other species: Common Yellowthroat Catbird Yellow Warbler Blue-winged Teal Ring-necked Pheasant It is a great park with varied habitat. John Quinn --=_NextPart_000_0046_01C68A7E.4FF70920 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable html xmlns:o=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office = xmlns:w=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word = xmlns:st1=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags = xmlns=3Dhttp://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40; head meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii meta name=3DGenerator content=3DMicrosoft Word 11 (filtered medium) o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags name=3DPersonName/ !--[if !mso] style st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } /style ![endif]-- style !-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Comic Sans MS; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Andy; panose-1:3 8 6 2 3 3 2 3 2 3;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Comic Sans MS; color:windowtext; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none none;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style /head body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple div class=3DSection1 p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Stopped on my way back from = DesMoines at about 6:30 Pm. Just past the entrance to the Park is a left hand turn = into the campground. I stopped next to the open field at the sound of = Dickcissel#8217;s singing. o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Observed the following over about 45 minutes:o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Bobolink #8211; = 25+o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Dickcissel #8211; = 5-10o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'White Pelicans #8211; 2 = flyingo:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Marsh Wren - = 1o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Sedge Wren #8211; 5 or = 6.o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'o:pnbsp;/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Other = species:o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Common = Yellowthroato:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Catbirdo:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Yellow = Warblero:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Blue-winged = Tealo:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'Ring-necked = Pheasanto:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'o:pnbsp;/o:p/span/font/p p class=3DMsoNormalfont size=3D3 face=3DComic Sans MSspan = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS'It is a great park with varied = habitat.