[mou-net] Prairie Warbler at Hastings Sand Coulee Scientific and Natural Area 6-15-2016

[franz325 University of Minnesota]

This afternoon I happened across a single male prairie warbler singing. I was 
able to get a recording and a few good looks. I please ask that as site steward 
of this SNA and locator of this find that people refrain from crowding this 
delicate ecosystem. There is both limited parking space and a lot of activity 
around this area would bring unwanted attention and concerns from the nearby 
residents. In order to further document this find, I ask that birders respect 
this request for the best interest of both the bird and the location. 

Thank you,

Alex Franzen

--
Alex Franzen
University of Minnesota: Twin Cities  
Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology 
"No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and 
meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them."
-Aldo Leopold

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[mou-net] [mou-rba] Henslow's in Blue Earth County

[Heins, Chad]

Hey birders,



Last night I found at least two Henslow’s Sparrows at Lincoln WPA in Blue
Earth County.  They were found on both sides of 169th Street east of CR32.
Both were singing relatively close to the road.  This species has been
becoming pretty regular at this WPA in recent years.



Happy birding!



Chad Heins

Mankato



*Chad Heins*

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Bethany Lutheran College

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Re: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill

[Mark Johnson]

When riding my bicycle home from work on Monday I noticed a Yellow-billed
Cuckoo flattened in 4th street under the skyway between Hanson Hall and The
Carlson school bldg on the West Bank.

Distinctive rufous wing feathers caught my eye. When I stopped yellow lower
mandible clearly visible.

Mark Dudek Johnson

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Tanya Beyer 
wrote:

> No one I think has mentioned that hawks--a merlin that I know of, at
> least--sometimes seem to use windows as a way of getting bird prey, driving
> them in for a collision. I had heard of this from a friend, than last fall
> experienced what sounded like an explosion just after I had shut off
> propane outside our summer home. Noticing a merlin on the railing and
> thinking it a coincidence at first, I checked everything I could think of
> to check for  some kind of gas explosion, at length finding a ruffed
> grouse, still alive but in shock, on the ground underneath our outdoor
> propane fridge. On the window alongside the fridge some ruffed grouse
> feathers were clinging; the grouse was still alive but in heavy shock. ​I
> suppose if this were the case here the cuckoos would be carried off as prey
> and never seen...
>
> *Tanya Beyer*
>
> http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.html
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Randy Frederickson <
> fredericks...@willmar.k12.mn.us> wrote:
>
> > My interpretation of that data is that being cuckoos are prone to
> > understory and dense vegetation flight, they are also more prone to
> > window collisions.  I think this would account for both data sets, and
> > the peregrines find them after the window strikes??
> > Has anyone ever seen a falcon chasing a cuckoo?  I have not, nor have
> > I ever seen them chasing anything smaller than a gull or
> > pigeonoops and lots of shorebirds.
> >
> >
> > Randy Frederickson
> >
> > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 6:59 PM, linda whyte  wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting --just this week, I learned that 3 cuckoos, 1
> yellow-billed,
> > 2
> > > black-billed-- or the other way around, I don't recall--were brought in
> > for
> > > treatment of serious, identical, neck wounds that were probably caused
> by
> > > peregrines. They were found in downtown St. Paul, close to a peregrine
> > nest
> > > area.
> > > Linda Whyte
> > >> On Jun 10, 2016 3:29 PM, "JULIAN SELLERS" 
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps 20 to 30 years ago, one of the leaders of the Twin Cities
> raptor
> > >> community (Bud Tordoff, I believe) presented a program about Peregrine
> > >> Falcons to a downtown St. Paul firm where my wife was employed.  He
> > stated
> > >> that the most common prey species identified at the nest box on the
> > Bremer
> > >> Building was Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  (Who would have guessed?)  Maybe
> the
> > >> cuckoos you've found were also "peregrine leavings."
> > >> Julian
> > >>
> > >>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:35:10 -0600
> > >>> From: m...@moumn.org
> > >>> Subject: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill
> > >>> To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
> > >>>
> > >>> (Posted by Todd Starich  via moumn.org)
> > >>>
> > >>> Two summers ago I found a dead black-billed cuckoo, apparent victim
> of
> > >> hitting a
> > >>> window, on the north side of Moos Tower on the UMN East Bank. One day
> > >> last
> > >>> summer I found another dead black-billed cuckoo, maybe within 15 ft
> of
> > >> where I
> > >>> had found one the summer before. Today I came across a dead
> > yellow-billed
> > >>> cuckoo about 30 yards away, by the adjacent PWB. This is not a
> > prominent
> > >>> window-kill graveyard-- I bike through there every workday of the
> year,
> > >> and it is
> > >>> rare to see dead birds other than peregrine leavings. So the
> proportion
> > >> of cuckoo
> > >>> window kill compared to other birds seems exceptionally high.
> Something
> > >> that
> > >>> cuckoos see that other birds in general don't??
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[mou-net] Canon River bottoms last Sunday

[Steve Weston]

I led a field trip to Canon River bottoms near Red Wing last Sunday. The
morning was wet and the trail was muddy after an apparent heavy rain fall
during the night. But, other than the mosquitos and the mud, the hike was
comfortable and the birding good. I recorded 44 species which included at
least 6 Cerulean Warblers, killer looks at 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, a Veery
(which I missed), Wood Thrush, Prothonotary and Blue-winged Warbler, and a
Winnowing Snipe.

Steve Weston
On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
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[mou-net] Why Bird?

[Al Schirmacher]

Why Bird?  Ten Thoughts.


Why watch and listen to birds?  Speaking personally:


·
Takes me outside of myself.  Such is not easy; often stuck within and on
self

 

·
Releases to beauty.  Much of life can be ugly; most birds either
are intrinsically beautiful or provide contrast to beauty.

 

·
Connectedness. 
Gradually - way too gradually, tend to be a bit thick - birding has led
to butterflying, which is all so very slowly leading to 
moth/dragonfly/flower/tree
appreciation.  May eventually glimpse
creation’s wholeness.

 

·
Exercise. 
Have a tough time imagine birding without at least one trail
conquest.  Or, at least, bit of a ramble.

 

·
Connectedness (again).  There are other birders out there.  Fellowship - even 
with those who think
differently - is sweet.

 

·
Collecting. 
As a child, collected stamps, coins, baseball cards…you get the
picture.  My inner 10 year old still
wants out.  Can release him here.

 

·
Music.  I’m
a pastor who is less than musical, despite college training and occupational
necessity.  But there is something about
a Wood Thrush, or a Black-throated Blue Warbler, or even a Northern Cardinal….

 

·
Color. 
God did not stint on the color. 
Oranges, reds, yellows stop me dead. 
And stopping is necessary.

 

·
Science. 
I am not a scientist.  I don’t
want to be a scientist.  But scientists
observe more closely, theorize more deeply, and share information/details I’d
surely miss; for ornithology I am thankful. 
MostlyJ

 

·
Outside. 
Our culture has migrated inside, fearful of weather and bugs and sun and….  
Love of birds will not allow this for as long
as mobile.  

 

So I am content.  Was
that a parula?
Al SchirmacherMuscotah, KS(49 years in Wisconsin and Minnesota)


 

 

  


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[mou-net] Great Black-backed Gull - Itasca Co

[Shawn Conrad]

This morning I found what I believe is a Great Black-backed Gull at the
north access of Trout Lake in Bovey.  I watched  it for about 2 minutes
before it flew down the shoreline toward the Longyear Park access.  Dark
mantle, large yellow bill with red spot, large size, very pale pink legs.
Photo at http://www.moumn.org/cgi-bin/doc.pl?rec_id=7111.

Shawn Conrad


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[mou-net] Weather conditions at hummer location. Park Point

[Randy Frederickson]

Heavy fog, drizzle, wind. 48 degrees

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[mou-net] CAHU

[Randy Frederickson]

Looking at calliope hummer at 6:20 a.m. Wed

Randy Frederickson

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[mou-net] Calliope Hummingbird still there on Wednesday???

[jeffbi...@charter.net]

Please post if the bird is seen or not seen. Thanks.


Jeff Stephenson
1323 28th ST SW
Rochester, MN 55902
Cell: 507 254 8194
Home: 507 289 7635

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