[mou] feeder birds and hawks in Murray County

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[mou] Mourning Doves - Goodhue County

On the ground beneath our thistle seed feeder now are five MOURNING DOVES - the first we have seen this season. We are on a farm between Cannon Falls and Kenyon. We also have PILEATED, RED BELLIED, HAIRY, AND DOWNY WOODPECKERS, A NORTHERN FLICKER, WHITE BREASTED & RED BREASTED NUTHATCHES, FIVE PAI

[mou] Counting Birds

When mou net contributors get caught up in what and how to count in approve= d ways, I am reminded of Mary Oliver's lovely poem: Snowy Night =A0 Last night, an owl in the blue dark tossed an indeterminate number =A0 of carefully shaped sounds into the world, in which, a quarter of a mile away, I h

[mou] Red-shouldered Hawk, Hennepin Co.

Today a little after noon at the Bass Ponds in Bloomington, Hennepin County there was an Adult Red-shouldered Hawk perched in the trees overlooking the open water filled with Mallards near the beaver lodge. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Cty con...@mycidco.com

[mou] Counting Birds

--part1_127.3abcaf3d.2d5c34e9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Birders Who Read Poetry-- Mary Oliver's poem is charming, but she is showing off. Note that she is telling the reader that she KNOWS the difference between the call of a Great

[mou] Birding at birdfeeders--a solution?

Many times when I'm out birding, I see a frenzy of birds at someone's feeder and I would love to take a look, but I don't want to upset anyone by staring at their yard through binoculars. So I had a thought--what if there was some way to know that the owner of the feeder was OK with you chec