[mou] RE: [mnbird] Mystery Egg

Based on the Field Guide to Bird Nests, it's not a merganser, all of whose eggs are variations of off-white with light flecks. Crow eggs are greenish with brown speckles, but smaller and this egg is the wrong shape. I could not locate a possibility in my book, but it doesn't show all species. Holl

[mou] Duluth RBA 2/3/05

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, February 3, 2005, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The unprecedented owl irruption continues across northern Minnesota. The highest concentrations of GREAT GRAY OWLS during the past week were seen in northern Aitkin Cty, where one

[mou] Gray Partridge - Winona County

Good morning, At dawn, during my morning commute, I had 4 Gray Partridge fly accross the road silhouetted against the predawn light. No color was observed. Smaller than roughed grouse. Farm habitat. Short tails.Didn't fly at all like doves. Not starlings. chunky birds. Fast win

[mou] Owl surveys?

We made a big push for volunteers at the beginning of this and felt we had gotten most of the people who were interested. I am not certain, though, so I thought I would ask one more time. As for where counts are needed, according to Peder Svingen's data, the approximate center of the Great Gray Owl

[mou] ALERT Gyrfalcon-Dakota County

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C50A40.0F888B9E Content-Type: text/plain Chris Benson just called to report he was seeing a perched Gyrfalcon on Highway 55 at milepost

[mou] Dakota Co. Gyrfalcon

--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII The adult Gyfalcon (gray phase) was still present at 4:55pm. It was perched atop a pole on the north side of the Hi 55 about 1/3 mi. east of where CR 42 branches off to the north. It was near mile marker 216. R

[mou] one-eyed owl

Today along County Road 21 north of Cloverdale in Pine County I found and photographed a one-eyed Great Gray Owl. The bird's left eye is cloudy, obviously damaged. It would be interesting to know if other observers locate this owl and where. The injury might allow the bird to be tracked as it m

[mou] MOU RBA 3 February 2005

--_-1104630478==_ma Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, February 3rd. On February 3rd, Chris Benson found a GYRFALCON in Dakota County at Idle Avenue and Dakota County Road 42. The bird was lat

[mou] Gyrfalcon in Dakota County on "Recently Seen"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0014_01C50A48.0EA4C690 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.cbs.umn.edu/~mou/ and click on "Recently Seen" --- David Cahlander da...@cahlander.com Burnsville

[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, February 4, 2005

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[mou] Not rare, just a report

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