Great idea! Gary and I will mail in $50. The Duluth trip...40+
owls...was priceless!
Sally Cagle
Minneapolis
On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 09:03 PM, Jim Williams wrote:
I'll contribute a dollar per Great Gray Owl seen this winter, give or
take five dollars. Put me down for $50. How
Howdy all,
I put a check in the mail last night for $68.00, $2.00 for each of the 34
owls seen on my last trip. Got some great Photo's as many others have. So
far in just a few e-mails this morning I have seen donations for $335.00
that makes $670.00 with the match from the Anderson fund. No
Kudos to Sharon Stiteler for bringing the Raptor Center's need to our
attention and to Jim Williams for suggesting a neat way to meet that need:
Great idea re: a dollar per owl, and I agree that the MOU should kick in,
too. If we're collecting expenses to assess the economic impact of birding,
we
I was encouraged to send this out to everyone. I'm an amateur birder and a
Fisheries Biologist for MNDNR.
I observed a Great Gray Owl sitting on a fence post in Winona Co. on County
Rd. 33 approximately 4-5 miles south of Utica...several miles south of I-90.
This was on March 14th. Yellow
Mark Alt, MOU president, has generously agreed to put on the next board
meeting agenda a request for MOU funds for The Raptor Center, to help
pay for this winter's owl rehab work.
In spite of having a large amount of money in the bank, finding this
money is not going to be easy for the board.
This email is sure to raise some hackles, so please let me preface by stating
that I believe contributions to the raptor center for treatment of injured
owls is a humane and worthy cause.
However, the figures bear a closer look. If we round the 'over 90 owls'
treated at TRC to 100 owls and
Chuck,
I regularly see them when sitting in my deer hunting near Floodwood, MN.
I have also seen them regularly in past years at Lebanon Regional Park
(Apple Valley/Eagan) and in the back wooded areas of the Minnesota Zoo.
They are fairly noisy when they pound, so it's not hard to locate them
if
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The Eastern Screech Owl is visible now, 5:30 pm, Thursday, March 17.=20
It is not very predictable.
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, March 17, 2005,
sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
Josh Watson found a BOREAL OWL on the 14th at mile marker 101 on Hwy 61
near the entrance to Cascade River State Park on the North shore. On
the 15th, Larry Ronning found another
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Over the noon hour today I found an adult, white phase Ross's Goose in a =
mixed flock of geese on Clear Lake.
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This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, March 18,
2005 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes
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