[mou] The Raptor Center Needs Help

2005-03-17 Thread Sally Cagle
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

[mou] The Raptor Center Needs Help

2005-03-17 Thread Blaine
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

[mou] A dollar an owl . . .

2005-03-17 Thread Val/Roger
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

[mou] GGOW in Winona Co. MN

2005-03-17 Thread Vaughn Snook
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

[mou] finding mou money for owl rehab

2005-03-17 Thread Jim Williams
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.

[mou] [SPAM-SAV] $$ for owls

2005-03-17 Thread mette...@d.umn.edu
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

[mou] FYI.. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker ??

2005-03-17 Thread este...@frontiernet.net
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

[mou] 5:30 pm, visible now, Eastern Screech Owl (red phase), Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. MN

2005-03-17 Thread George B Skinner
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_001F_01C52B19.9ADA4620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Eastern Screech Owl is visible now, 5:30 pm, Thursday, March 17.=20 It is not very predictable.

[mou] Duluth RBA 3/17/05

2005-03-17 Thread David Benson
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

[mou] Ross's Goose/Brown County

2005-03-17 Thread Brian Smith
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_040E_01C52B1C.B8333710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Over the noon hour today I found an adult, white phase Ross's Goose in a = mixed flock of geese on Clear Lake.

[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, March 18, 2005

2005-03-17 Thread Jeanie Joppru
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0011_01C52B33.709B9CA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, March 18, 2005 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes