[mou-net] Mille Lacs Lake

[Al Schirmacher]

Circumnavigated Mille Lacs Lake, hoping for scoters or winter gulls.

Nope.

Did leave with Pine Grosbeaks & White-winged Crossbills, certainly worthwhile.

Bays have begun to freeze, don't imagine lake will make it to December.

Al Schirmacher
Princeton, MN

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[mou-net] Guiding Yesterday / Park Pt. Birds Today

[Michael Hendrickson]

Yesterday was the last day of three days guiding a client from Maryland.  The 
weather yesterday was gusty with winds from the west.  There was a lot of 
intermediate snow showers through the day and in a nut shell it was a tough day 
to find birds.  We started out in Sax-Zim Bog and tried in vain to look for 
Great Gray Owls in several locations and came up with no sightings.  I feel 
there were two reasons for this, the weather conditions and deer hunting 
traffic in the bog.  But we did find a small grouping of 5 Sharp-tailed Grouse 
at the lek location off Poplar Rd or south of intersection of Arkola Rd/52 & 
Stickney Rd.  The grouse were huddled around the pump house that looks like a 
old out house located in a large mowed hay field.  Heard a lot of White-winged 
Crossbills flying over us in the bog and saw several flocks of Snow Buntings.  
In a few open fields we found Rough-legged Hawks hunting but other than that 
not a lot of bird diversity.

So we headed to Duluth and began our afternoon at Park Point.  We witnessed the 
large migration of eagles migrating right over Park Point and like Karl Bardon 
mentioned in his earlier post about the raptor movement at Hawk Ridge, we also 
saw a lot of Rough-legged Hawks moving over Park Point and we spotted one adult 
Goshawk.  We heard both Red and White-winged Crossbills flying over Park Point 
Recreational Area along with redpolls  We also observed large numbers of Pine 
Grosbeaks feeding on the flowering crab apple trees in the park as well.  


Today:
I went back to Park Point to photograph the Pine Grosbeaks and while doing so,  
I observed both species of crossbills flying over Park Pt. along with some 
redpolls.  Saw a Northern Shrike and heard probably the same two Bohemian 
Waxwings that were reported yesterday by Shawn Zierman.  There are still some 
juncos and Tree Sparrows in the park along with some robins and some Snow 
Buntings.  


Mountain Bluebird:
While walking along the main road photographing Pine Grosbeaks, I met Allan 
Meadows from International Falls who inform me of a Mountain Bluebird that was 
reported to him by either Shawn Zierman or Kim Eckert who were also 
photographing/ birding in the park.  I relocated the bluebird across the main 
road from the public restrooms foraging for insects.  Peder Svingen met me at 
Park Point along with Larry & Jan Kraemer.  We spent a lot of time observing 
and photographing the male Mountain Bluebird as it spends a lot of its time on 
NW area of the ball field or across the road from the public restroom.  As a 
side note after I text Karl Bardon about the male Mt. Bluebird at Park Point, 
Karl text me back to say that a Mt. Bluebird just flew by Hawk Ridge!  With the 
strong winds the last two days from the west, I wonder how many more Mt. 
Bluebirds are around or other western strays?

Good Birding

Mike

 
Mike Hendrickson
Duluth, Minnesota
MikeHendricksonGuiding.com
Sax-ZimBog.com


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[mou-net] Mountain Bluebird clarification

[Kim R Eckert]

I apologize if you were confused by my earlier mou-net posting with an "update" 
on the Mountain Bluebird at Park Point in Duluth. The bird was found yesterday 
afternoon by Joe Hudick of Osceola WI, and he e-mailed me about his sighting. 
Since I don't know Joe and didn't look closely enough at his e-mail, my 
assumption was that this message was posted on mou-net and that all listservice 
subscribers would know about it, but I just realized his message was actually a 
private e-mail. Again my apologies for the delay in getting the news out about 
this sighting. As I posted earlier, the bird was still present this morning, 
mostly along the road between the main Recreation Area parking lot and Sky 
Harbor airport.  -Kim  

Kim R Eckert
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[mou-net] Mountain Bluebird in Duluth update

[K R E]

Still present this morning at Park Point along road just north of Sky Harbor 
Airport. An apparent first-fall female with wash of buff on breast. Need to 
check references on this. Also late Swainson's Thrush near main parking lot. 
Kim Eckert


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[mou-net] siskins and goldfinch banding returns

Hi all—

Erika and I were greeted upon our return from an epic road trip through the
recent hurricane to see the Met Opera in New York. Back in Rice Co., we
were greeted by huge flocks of siskins and goldfinches.  We banded 48
individuals and recaptured 4 goldfinches from the last three winters.
 Details are on my blog: http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com/

All we need now is a vacation from our vacation….

dan

-- 
Dan or Erika Tallman
Northfield, Minnesota
daner...@gmail.com

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Two Years Among the
Odonates

" the best shod travel with wet feet...Beware of all enterprises that
require new clothes "--Thoreau


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[mou-net] Bohemian Waxwings, Ramsey County

[Bob Dunlap]

I just found a small group of Bohemian Waxwings in a crabapple tree at the
intersection of Sherwood Rd. and Oakwood Dr.  in Shoreview.

Bob Dunlap


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