[mou] MRVAC - Nicollet County birding day - field trip report - 9/20/04

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[mou] 9/20/2004 - Nicollet County - Hooded Warbler

---1095774488 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 9/20/2004 Nicollet County - Seven Mile Creek County Park Approx. 10:15am @ Hooded Warbler - Male Hooded Warbler observed along trail one about 100 yards West of the West end

[mou] Dakota County

Sunday (sorry for the posting delay) Empire Sod Farms (Jirik) Killdeer -40 Horned Larks ~80 Tree Swallows -1 (usually there are many) Habitat looks goods, but no shore birds 180th St. Least Sandpiper -12 Habitat looks good, but couldn't find anything 130th St. plenty of exposed shoreline, but

[mou] Snowy Egret, large pale gull - Lyon County

Snowy Egret was seen again today (9/21) at Island Lake in Lyon county along the shore by the public access. In the Black Rush Lake area there was one gull (out of several hundred) that caught my attention. I do not know what species it is, but offer the following description for those of you who

[mou] Breeding plumage Chestnut-collared Longspur image

I've been going through my images and trying to find ones that I have not shared. Here is an image from Felton Prairie taken last year in spring. http://www.naturepixels.com/images/ccls2.jpg Enjoy. Regards, Terry __ Do you Yahoo!? New and

[mou] Spirit Lake Report

I thought Minnesota birders might find this Spirit Lake, IA report interesting: Hello, Last night while checking out the gulls at the north end of Big Spirit Lake I saw a first year sabine's gull. It was out off Crandall's swimming beach in the NW corner of the lake. The strong South winds had