[mou] A further update from Aitkin County

Some of the things have already been mentioned but the SNOWY OWL was still present this last weekend and several birders got a great show of the owl swallowing a large mouse Saturday night. This afternoon around 4:30 there were two GREAT GRAY OWLS along C.R.18, the first was about 1/2 mile west of

[mou] Need help with woodpecker question

Could someone help me resolve a question? I have searched the Web and simply cannot get a clear answer. Why is the population of red-headed woodpeckers declining while red-bellied woodpeckers are faring well? I know red-headed woodpeckers have suffered from loss of nesting habitat due to remova

[mou] Photos of Great Gray & Snowy Owls

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C40FBF.8F4EDCA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HI all: =20 This weekend I spent time birding in Aitkin County looking for the owls = and found both. Below are t

[mou] Swans

Hi all, I took my 2 yr. old to see the Eagles in Wabasha today and of course cut through Whitewater WMA on the way. First pool coming out of Elba on 74 there were 2 swans way in the back of the pool maybe 200 yards away. I put the scope to them and would have definately called them trumpete

[mou] Brant, owls(long)

I dropped everything and headed to Paynesville today. There were a lot of Canada Geese on the dikes of the ponds, but no Brant. After a little while, several people showed up, and we drove nearby roads, checking fields for the Brant. We arrived back at the ponds after awhile. We were hoping that

[mou] Red Wing to Kellogg

I escaped the confines of the shop today to attend the National Eagle Center's Thirteenth Annual Soar With the Eagles Brunch. Guest speaker, National Geographic Cinematographer, Neil Rettig and Cal the Harpy Eagle were wonderful. How does he hold that bird on his arm for an hour?! Took a le

[mou] Brant

Phil Chu just called me reporting a BRANT at the Paynesville sewage ponds in Stearns County. These ponds are just on Stearns County Road 33 just north of town. The Brant was associating with a large group of Canada Geese, and these geese were flying back and forth between the dike at the south

[mou] Redpolls and Purple finches in Burnsville

This morning has been one of the best yard bird days in a long time. So far this morning we've seen: Common Redpoll - A total of 5 or 6 seen at different times Purple Finch - 2 American GoldFinch - lots House Finch White-breasted Nuthatch American Robin - several Northern Cardinal Blue Jay Ameri