[mou-net] yahoo.com and aol.com members can no longer post
The bad news: 369 mou-net members were automatically removed from the list this morning. This happened because of an anti-SPAM feature added to all mail from yahoo.com and aol.com members by yahoo.com and aol.com. All of the yahoo.com and aol.com members have now been marked as NOPOST. This means that they can read mail from mou-net, but can not send any mail to mou-net. The good news: All 369 members have been added back to the list. You do not need to do anything if you received a notice that you have been removed from the list. An (experimental) method to send mail to mou-net has been added to moumn.org. Go to http://moumn.org and click on the mou-net send box in the upper right hand corner of the page. This can be used by anyone that is logged into moumn.org, but it should only be used by yahoo.com and aol.com members of the mou-net list. It provides a return address of nore...@moumn.org (youremailaddress) Alternatives: The list provider at umn.edu has suggested that instead of using a yahoo.com or aol.com email address, you can sign up for a different free email provider such as gmail.com. You can sign up for a gmail account by going to: http://mail.google.com/mail/signup You can even even keep your yahoo.com or aol.com account to read mail, but you need something else to be able to post mail. -- David Cahlander da...@cahlander.com Burnsville MN 952-894-5910 Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Whimbrel, Marbled Godwits Douglas Co. 5/26
A Whimbrel and two Marbled Godwits just flew in at a large flooded area on the west side of county 7, just south of I-94. The Whimbrel is feeding along the edges if the pond south of Pheasant Drive, while the Godwits have flown into the grassy area on the north side. Doug Kieser Minneapolis Sent from my Sprint phone.
Re: [mou-net] Whimbrel, Marbled Godwits Douglas Co. 5/26
That should have been EAST side of Douglas county highway 7. Sent from my Sprint phone. - Reply message - From: Doug Kieser doug.kie...@clynch.com To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] Whimbrel, Marbled Godwits Douglas Co. 5/26 Date: Mon, May 26, 2014 9:06 AM A Whimbrel and two Marbled Godwits just flew in at a large flooded area on the west side of county 7, just south of I-94. The Whimbrel is feeding along the edges if the pond south of Pheasant Drive, while the Godwits have flown into the grassy area on the north side. Doug Kieser Minneapolis Sent from my Sprint phone. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Hooded Warbler @ T.S. Roberts
There was a silent male Hooded Warbler @ Roberts this morning. It was seen between 9:00 9:30 along the fence north of the path near the bird feeder. Also, present were several male Mourning Warblers a calling Red-headed Woodpecker. Tom Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Removal from the MOU-NET list
Skip this non bird message if you don't want to know the details about members removed from the mou-net list. Several have posted a message that they have comcast.com, hotmail.com or other email provider and have been removed from the list. All subscribers that were removed from the list were added back into the list. The problem with messages resulted from yahoo.com and aol.com setting a parameter of p=reject in their DMARC configuration. This is used to remove a type of SPAM. However, this feature breaks any mail going through a listserv such as mou-net. You can think of it as a poison pill in any mail from yahoo.com or aol.com. It tells the receiving email provider to check the domain portion of the email From: line with the server who sent the mail, and take the action 'reject' if they don't match. A mail from yahoo.com goes to our email listserv provider, lists.umn.edu, and is sent out to the members of mou-net. comcast.net, hotmail.com, etc. do the check on the From: address in the email message and see that yahoo.com does not match umn.edu and rejects the message. The mou-net listserv keeps track of rejected messages and after some threshold has been reached, removes the rejecting member from the list. The rejected member can be from any of a number of email providers. That is why a comcast.net, hotmail.com, msn.com, etc. member was removed from the list. The side effect of this operation, any valid email message from yahoo.com and aol.com does to go to your inbox. A post from yahoo.com does not even get accepted by yahoo.com. This is the reason why someone could post a message and not see it in their own inbox. The Wisconsin bird list has worked around this problem by rewriting the From address so the message comes from their server instead of yahoo.com. We have been trying to work with list.umn.edu, but have not been successful in making a change to the mou-net listserv. Until some other solution can be found, yahoo.com and aol.com member have been excluded from posting messages to mou-net. Notice that even without this change in list policy, yahoo.com and aol.com were going to only a portion of the list members. Their posts were rejected by many of the email providers, so their messages were discarded. gmail put these messages into the users SPAM folder. Not allowing posts from yahoo.com and aol.com means that important messages are not sent. To allow yahoo.com and aol.com members to share their information on mou-net, a web page was added to moumn.org. This is located at http://moumn.org and then click on the box in the upper right hand corner that says mou-net send. This brings up a page that uses the email address of the member of moumn.org and creates a From line that is acceptable. So if s...@yahoo.com sends a message, the From line becomes: From: nore...@moumn.org (s...@yahoo.com) When you receive a message from this member, you can not just hit reply and reply back channel to this member. You need to fish out the s...@yahoo.com and put it in the To: portion of the response. This is a very long winded answer to the post: Except, as you can see, my email is NOT yahoo or aol, and I was still booted. I'm not happy with the work assignment given to us by yahoo.com and aol.com. I'll keep the list posted about any more changes. Let's go birding! -- David cahlanderda...@cahlander.com Burnsville MN 952-894-5910 Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Black-necked Stilts Grant Cnty
I am passing along a report from Jim Peterson that he found 2 Black-necked Stilts at the Herman sewage ponds this morning. Several other shorebird species present; Black-necked Stilt, Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Dunlin, Baird's Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope. -jerry pruett -- chance favors the prepared mind Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
Re: [mou-net] Hooded Warbler @ T.S. Roberts
I re-found the Hooded Warbler at 1:30pm at the same location that Tom Tustison had reported it. The warbler was foraging very actively only a few feet off the ground. There was also an Alder Flycatcher a little to the east of there that called once. Cheers, Jason Caddy Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 15:32:12 + From: tomtusti...@hotmail.com Subject: [mou-net] Hooded Warbler @ T.S. Roberts To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU There was a silent male Hooded Warbler @ Roberts this morning. It was seen between 9:00 9:30 along the fence north of the path near the bird feeder. Also, present were several male Mourning Warblers a calling Red-headed Woodpecker. Tom Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Avocets, Hud Godwit- Carver County
Pete Hoeger just called me and is reporting: 9 Avocets, 1Hud.Godwit, other shorebirds right now on very busy Mn Hwy 7 near intersection with Carver CR 21 between new Germany and Mayer in large flooded muddy farm field right next to hwy. -Pete Hoeger If you plan to go, I would go soon as he says skies are clear there now. However, it is pouring rain in Hutchinson and might be heading that way. -- Kristine Leuze Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Merlin, Acacia cemetery, Mendota Heights (Dakota C.)
As I finished a walk through the Pilot Knob Prairie Restoration, the calls of a Merlin from woods on Acacia Cemetery's northeast border drew my attention. I was headed out of the Prairie area, on the blacktop road, when the bird flew along the east border of the cemetery with something in its talons. She landed in one of the tall conifers at the edge of the road, close to the cemetery entrance, and commenced plucking at her prey. However, a large number of people were arriving, presumably for the scheduled 10:00 Memorial Service. The Merlin grew agitated, and took off over the north edge of the cemetery, headed back toward the woods. Perhaps this is one of the pair that has nested in Acacia the past few years. or one of their offspring. There was no sign of them when I checked Acacia several weeks ago, while there has been a pair reported nesting to the east, by Smith Avenue. In any case, it was nice to see one there again, even if temporarily, and it will merit more investigation. Linda Whyte Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Birding at Darwin S. Myers WMA
I stopped at the Darwin S. Myers Wildlife Management Area, Embarrass, MN, St. Louis County just to check the access on Sunday and then returned with a group on Monday. On Monday we spent from 8:00 a.m. to noon in the area from the main entrance to the bridge and then east along the north side of the Embarrass River. With mixed levels of experience, a number of birds were first time sightings for participants. A relatively small area was covered as birds were heard and seen with binoculars and in some cases a spotting scope. Boreal chorus frogs, wood frogs, spring peepers, American toads and western painted turtles were also observed along with almost no biting insects. *Sunday, May 25* Broad-winged Hawk *Monday, May 26* Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Hooded Merganser Northern Harrier Sora (many) Lesser Yellowlegs (6) Wilson’s Snipe (many) Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow (many - nest building under bridge) Winter Wren Sedge Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush (one) American Robin Gray Catbird Orange-crowned Warbler (one) Yellow Warbler (many) Palm Warbler (one) Blackpoll Warbler (one) American Redstart (one) Common Yellowthroat (many) Wilson’s Warbler (many) Lark Sparrow (one) Savannah Sparrow (one) Song Sparrow (many) Swamp Sparrow (many) White-throated Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird (many) American Goldfinch -- *Bill tefftefnb...@gmail.com efnb...@gmail.com218-235-8078* Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Rusty Blackbird Survey results
The checklists between Minnesota and Wisconsin have been tallied for this year's Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz, and the winner is...Wisconsin. I won't go into details here, but there will be an article on it in the upcoming Minnesota Birding magazine. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks to all who participated, and good birding! Alyssa DeRubeis Stevens Point, WI Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Snowy Egret, Red Knot, nesting Great Gray Owl in NW Minn
The May 23-24-25-26 MBW in NW Minnesota (mostly in Kittson, western Roseau, and western Polk Co's) turned up a surprisingly good number of species (186 in all), highlighted especially by: Snowy Egret - May 26 at the Agassiz impoundment (along 280th Ave on the Marshall-Polk Co line); small unidentified white egret near several distant Great Egrets first spotted by Denny Martin and eventually identified as it flew closer. Red Knot (still in basic plumage) - May 25 along Roseau CR 3 in flooded field near 340th St (7.5 mi N of Badger); also distant, initially unidentified, and first spotted by Denny; positive ID then made after careful study despite poor light conditions. Great Gray Owl adult on nest - May 24 in NE Kittson Co aspen grove; unknown raptor nest spotted by Herb Dingmann which was then scoped and proved to be a Great Gray's, with a presumed adult female apparently incubating eggs or possibly attending to unseen hatchlings; this may represent a first county nesting record. Other birds of note included: Snow Goose - blue-morph adult May 26 at Hallock sewage ponds, Kittson Co. Tundra Swan - late-lingering pair May 25 at Red Knot site. Gray Partridge - May 26 in Warren, Marshall Co and Crookston sewage ponds, Polk Co. Greater Prairie-Chicken - 2 probable sightings N of their normal range on May 25: along Kittson CR 8 and Roseau CR 4. Wild(?) Turkey - male displaying to 2 females May 25 at western end of Roseau River WMA. Least Bittern - 2 or 3 on May 25 at Twin Lakes WMA, Kittson Co. total of 25 shorebird species - besides the Red Knot, highlights included Hudsonian Godwits (several at multiple locations), Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings (~20 at Red Knot site), hundreds of White-rumped Sandpipers, Red-necked Phalaropes (several at multiple locations); best locations were the numerous flooded fields May 25 near the Roseau River between CR 3 and CR 28, and the Crookston sewage ponds May 23 and 26 (entry with advance permission only). Yellow-bellied, Alder, Willow Least flycatchers - all together and vocalizing May 26 in a single thicket at the Agassiz impoundment, Polk Co. total of 22 warbler species - including Golden-winged, Mourning, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Canada; best locations were Lake Bronson State Park May 24 and Roseau City Park/Campground May 25. Kim R Eckert, Duluth http://www.mbwbirds.com Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Fwd: [mou-net] Avocets, Hud Godwit- Carver County
11 Avocets and the Godwit were present at 8:15 PM this evening. Thanks Pete and Kristine for getting the word out. Joel Claus Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Kristine Leuze kristinele...@gmail.com Date: May 26, 2014 at 4:39:18 PM CDT To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] Avocets, Hud Godwit- Carver County Reply-To: Kristine Leuze kristinele...@gmail.com Pete Hoeger just called me and is reporting: 9 Avocets, 1Hud.Godwit, other shorebirds right now on very busy Mn Hwy 7 near intersection with Carver CR 21 between new Germany and Mayer in large flooded muddy farm field right next to hwy. -Pete Hoeger If you plan to go, I would go soon as he says skies are clear there now. However, it is pouring rain in Hutchinson and might be heading that way. -- Kristine Leuze Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Black-Necked Stilts Grant County
still present this evening at the Herman sewage treatment ponds late this afternoon. also of note Hudsonian Godwit - good looks in flight White Rump Sandpiper Wilson's and Red Necked Phalaropes Could not find the Loggerhead Shrike on Hwy 9 N of Herman Many Western Meadowlarks, pairs of Bobolinks and Yellow Throated Warblers in the grass near the airport. Charlene Nelson Grant County Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
Re: [mou-net] Black-Necked Stilts Grant County
sorry, tired, Common Yellowthroats at the airport On May 26, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Charlene Nelson birdnir...@gmail.com wrote: still present this evening at the Herman sewage treatment ponds late this afternoon. also of note Hudsonian Godwit - good looks in flight White Rump Sandpiper Wilson's and Red Necked Phalaropes Could not find the Loggerhead Shrike on Hwy 9 N of Herman Many Western Meadowlarks, pairs of Bobolinks and Yellow Throated Warblers in the grass near the airport. Charlene Nelson Grant County Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
