[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, April 30, 2004

2004-04-29 Thread Jeanie Joppru
This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, April 30, 2004 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. Migration is coming in bursts this year what with the passage of multiple weather fronts

[mou] Avocets-Wright county

2004-04-29 Thread Dennis/Barbara Martin
There were 11 American Avocets in the marsh one mile west of Montrose on Highway 12 around noon today. They were gone in the evening along with nearly all of the other half dozen or so species that had been present. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmar...@skypoint.com

[mou] Lewiston Rocks!!

2004-04-29 Thread Chad Aakre
John Hockema, Carol Schumacher, and myself had the look of deer in the headlights as we stared at the multitudes of shorebirds tonight at Lewiston Sewage Ponds, Winona County. Heres the data in order of abundance: Pectoral Sandpipers - 1000 plus of minus 200 Lesser Yellowlegs - 800 +-100 Greate

[mou] Lake Byllesby report 29 april AM

2004-04-29 Thread Per Johansson
This morning 8-9.30 AM (29 april) me and Joachim Strengbom birded the mudflats at west side of Lake Byllesby: c 20 Semipalmated plovers 6 Hudsonian godwits 100+ L. yellowlegs c 20 G. Yellowlegs c 50 Pectoral sandpipers 1 Willet 1 Solitary sandpiper 1 Common sandpiper c. 30 Least sandpipers 1 Semip

[mou] more Lincoln sparrows/St. Cloud

2004-04-29 Thread Houghton, Timothy D.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C42E4B.98D74A4C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What a day for Lincoln sparrows in the St. Cloud area. I think I'm safe = in saying that mnay of us don't get a

[mou] More Byllesby shorebirds

2004-04-29 Thread James Mattsson
--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII At 4:00pm today at Lake Byllesby in Dakota County: Marbled Godwit - 2 (way out by the pelicans) Long-billed Dowithcher - 2 Baird's Sandpiper - 7 Wilson's Phalarope - 2 (females) Sanderling - 2 Least Sanpiper - 1

[mou] Willets, McLeod County

2004-04-29 Thread Bob Dunlap
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0038_01C42E01.05BD8D10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This afternoon I found two Willets along Hwy. 7 in McLeod County. The = birds were on the south side of the

[mou] black-and-white, Lincoln's Sp/St. Cloud

2004-04-29 Thread Houghton, Timothy D.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C42E29.25B2A9A3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This morning I saw a Lincoln's sparrow at Beaver Islands Trail. There were at least a half dozen Black-and-Whi

[mou] Wood Lake's Warblers, Hennepin County

2004-04-29 Thread Conny Brunell
This morning when Leslie and I were at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Hennepin County we watched singing Warbling Vireo's in many locations around the park. We also enjoyed watching a male singing Tennessee Warbler, and a pair of Black-and white Warbler's creeping along the tree bark all

[mou] warblers

2004-04-29 Thread Steve & Jo Blanich
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_005B_01C42DCE.D58829C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thursday AM our yard was filled with several hundred yellow-rumped = warblers, Crosby-Deerwood area of Crow W

[mou] Avocet in Murray County

2004-04-29 Thread Timmerman, Janet
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C42DF2.F750B094 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As I was driving to work this morning I glanced down at the shoreline of = Lake Wilson along Highway 91 as it goe

[mou] Loon alert-Dakota Co.

2004-04-29 Thread jim_matts...@fws.gov
This is a heads up. This morning at 6:35am, while walking my dog, I watched a small, basic plumaged loon fly over low at only about 100-125ft above ground. Its wing beat was noticeably rapid. I have been seeing several Common Loons in flight recently and new it was not that species. It appeared sm

[mou] Birds on the Radio

2004-04-29 Thread Sharon Stiteler
Talk station fm107 is looking for new programming ideas, they want to know what listeners want--I don't know about you, but I would love to see an hour long radio show about birding in the Twin Cities. Email them and tell them you want some birding on the radio: feedb...@fm107.fm Sharon Stiteler