[mou-net] 36 min audio segment on migratory birds

[PalmerLakeGuy]

A wonderful audio segment on “The Astounding Flyways of Migratory Birds”
with some amazing scientific facts on shorebirds and songbirds:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982232107/naturalist-traces-the-astounding-flyways-of-migratory-birds

Travis Bonovsky
Brooklyn Center, MN


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Re: [mou-net] Battle Creek Grassland at Risk

[PalmerLakeGuy]

Thank you for sharing this! I also contacted the first four people on the
provided list and have received two replies today stating that additional
comments should be sent to john.sl...@perkinswill.com. More info is below.

Travis Bonovsky
Brooklyn Center, MN

Thank you for your message. I am forwarding your message to the project
manager, John Slack, at  john.sl...@perkinswill.com of Perkins & Will the
vendor who is leading the community engagement initiative for this project.
Perkins & Will is in charge of collecting all public input received for
this engagement. Please contact Perkins & Will if you have additional items
you wish to communicate.


On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:46 PM Jane Dickerson <
1b27a581c211-dmarc-requ...@lists.umn.edu> wrote:

> Done!
>
> Thanks for sending, Julian.
>
> Jane
>
> > On Nov 28, 2020, at 11:02 AM, JULIAN SELLERS 
> wrote:
> >
> > The city of Maplewood is planning to develop a 77-acre county-owned
> tract of (mostly) grassland adjacent to Battle Creek Regional Park in
> southeastern Ramsey County.  During recent nesting seasons, birders have
> documented a number of species on this property that are in steep decline
> in Minnesota and North America.  The county should adjust the park boundary
> to include this tract instead of selling it for development.  For more
> information, and to take action, go to tinyurl.com/77acres.
> >
> > Julian Sellers
> > Saint Paul
> >
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Re: [mou-net] Hennepin Crossbills

[PalmerLakeGuy]

A huge thank you to Pete and Deb Hoeger-Lerdal for this report. I was able
to be on site in just over an hour of the report and observed an estimated
40+ birds along with 3 or 4 other birders for about 20 minutes. Eventually
the flock moved on to whereabouts unknown. After scouring other areas of
the cemetery for about 3 hours, I was unable to relocate them :(

Sunset and the adjacent Hillside Cemeteries are among my top 5 most
frequented birding spots and I'm thrilled to add this species to my
"cemetery list!"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/palmerlakeguy2010/50598440088/in/dateposted/

Travis Bonovsky
Brooklyn Center, MN



On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:05 PM PeteandDeb Hoeger-Lerdal <
hoegerler...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 6 WWCR at entrance to Sunset Cemetery on St. Anthony Blvd
> NE Minneapolis.
> Pete Hoeger
>
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Re: [mou-net] Chickadees on marijuana

[PalmerLakeGuy]

I have seen and photographed American Goldfinch eating hemp:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/palmerlakeguy2010/48772583756/in/album-72157679072868235/

Travis Bonovsky
Brooklyn Center, MN

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:58 PM  wrote:

> And there must be many versions of hemp. I have a wild version that is
> impossible to kill off. My great grandpa in Morrison County used to have a
> difficult time getting rid of his version so livestock wouldn’t get into
> it. Grandpa had to slash n burn. I at least have the advantage of weed
> killers. And I would guess what is being licensed to grow for CBD and other
> commercial use is different too. From my farm publications it is a variety
> that doesn’t produce the THC that is mind altering. It’s pretty strictly
> regulated.
>
> Back to bird feeding I’ve not seen birds taking seed from what we have
> here that’s wild. But then I try to burn it down before it seeds. I do have
> another invasive weed that I watched white throated sparrows feed on seeds
> yesterday. I’m just glad someone appreciates that noxious invasive.
>
> Charlene Nelson
> Grant County
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Jared Del Rosso 
> wrote:
>
> Apparently, pigeons will eat hemp seeds. When the U.S. Congress first
> began
> criminalizing marijuana use in the late-1930s (first by issuing a tax on
> it, not actually criminalizing it), bird seed companies (at the last
> minute) tried to interject, seeking an exception for seed production for
> pigeons. They argued that the seeds were indispensible to the production of
> healthy squabs; other seeds "changed the character" of the bird. (My source
> is the sociologist Howard Becker's book *Outsiders: Studies in the
> Sociology of Deviance.)*
>
> - Jared Del Rosso
> Centennial, Colorado (formerly, part-time in St. Paul and Cloquet)
>
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kathryn Rudd 
> wrote:
> >
> > Are the birds lounging about on the fallen leaves and giggling?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Laura Erickson <
> chickadee.erick...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I was one of the people in Carrol Henderson's study offering the hemp
> > seeds
> >> at my feeder in Duluth--didn't have any takers, either. But it's
> possible
> >> the difference is that the hemp seed in the experiment was "industrial
> >> hemp," not "psychoactive hemp."
> >>
> >> Best, Laura Erickson
> >> Duluth, MN
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:08 PM sparky stensaas <
> > sparkystens...@hotmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ha! This is exactly what Carrol Henderson was working on...
> >>> Hemp seeds were used as a bird seed many years ago.
> >>> Last year he had many of us test hemp seeds in our feeders to see if
>
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[mou-net] Passing of Ron Taube of Coon Rapids

[PalmerLakeGuy]

Some of you may have already heard that long time birder, writer and
photographer Ron Taube of Coon Rapids passed away on September 16th, 2020.
Ron was a friend to many in the birding community including myself, who
spent nearly all his time birding with others and developed an impressive
wealth of information on good birding locations within the Twin Cities and
beyond, which he shared willingly.

Ron was an avid member of a local writers group based also in Coon Rapids,
and a frequent contributor to ABC Newspapers with his "Talking Nature
"
columns. He was an impassioned photographer
 of birds, butterflies and
more, teaching myself and others to always "shoot first and ask questions
later" as a method of learning more about your subject. In his last years,
Ron assumed a teaching role for a community education birding class,
bequeathed to him by retired Anoka High School Biology teacher and friend
Lyle Bradley.

Ron's passing leaves many of his closest birding friends heartbroken and we
wish to recognize his name and spirit with the dedication of a memorial
bench at Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley. If Ron touched your life in
any way, we invite you to contribute to this effort via this gofundme

 page.

Ron's obituary here:
https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/368664/

Thank you and happy birding,
Travis Bonovsky, Brooklyn Center, MN


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[mou-net] Eastern Towhee in the city

[PalmerLakeGuy]

Doing some yard work shortly before noon today I heard a most unusual bird
sound for my neighborhood in southern Brooklyn Center (just 2 blocks north
of Mpls). Eastern Towhee calling his “drink your tea” Song over and over.
Eventually caught a short glimpse of him in my neighbors crabapple tree. A
fantastic yard bird for me, no doubt just passing through.

(45.0560243,-93.2953684)

Travis Bonovsky
Emerson Ave. N.
Brooklyn Center, MN


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