[mou] Great-tailed Grackle - Lyon Co

2005-03-28 Thread pmegel...@aol.com
---1112062743 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I took my Mother back to Cottonwood today and although she is now in assisted living and I do not have the great yard to bird in I can still check out Sham Lake. For a reason

[mou] Westskyline Hawk Count- Update 3/28

2005-03-28 Thread bjbor...@aol.com
Westskyline Hawk Count has been up and running since 1 March. Now that spring has arrived in the Northland the eagles are picking up. The past two days has provided some excellent condition to set us up for a great flight. On the 26 the winds were southerly and brought warmer temperature and sta

[mou] April 16-17 MOU Field Trip - Rock County (FREE)

2005-03-28 Thread Tom Auer
We've still got plenty of space for the first official MOU Field Trip of 2005. Bob Dunlap and myself will be leading a weekend trip to Rock County (and other hotspots in the SW), looking for a large variety of spring migrants. As many of you are certainly aware, Spring is here and more birds are a

[mou] Sherburne Co. Shrike and Hawks

2005-03-28 Thread Paul and JoAnn Gunderson
--Apple-Mail-2-603648322 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed 3/28 Spent 45 minutes this morning scanning the sky above the Elk River from=20= my driveway looking for passing waterfowl. Not much luck. A few=20 Ma

[mou] Playing Hooky in Dakota County

2005-03-28 Thread Sharon Stiteler
I avoided a bunch of writing and cleaning late this morning and took a drive to Dakota County for signs of spring. I wasn't disappointed, I found my official sing of spring in the form of two turkey vultures and a great blue heron on CR 54. Other birds include: Wood ducks Ring-necked ducks Lesse

[mou] MOU web page has moved

2005-03-28 Thread David A. Cahlander
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0003_01C533B3.DCF407B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The MOU web page and seasonal record entry has moved to http://moumn.org The seasonal report page has c

[mou] Wigeon

2005-03-28 Thread Anthony X. Hertzel
--_-1100075559==_ma Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I just talked to Karl Bardon, and early this afternoon he found a male Eurasian Wigeon in Winona County. It was seen from the Verchota Landing along the Prairie Island Road. The landing is

[mou] Townsend's Solitaire; Reporting Question

2005-03-28 Thread Pastor Al
Relocated the Townsend's Solitaire along Ann Lake Campground Road over lunch hour today after a one month "absence". It's loud, repeated single note call drew my initial attention. Noted that Y2004 had no spring records, so documented it on the on-line seasonal report form. Should it have been o

[mou] Sherburne County 3-26

2005-03-28 Thread Andrew D. Bicek
Bob Holtz, Matt Hanan and myself birded Sherburne county on Saturday. Found 48 species, and just missed our goal of topping the temperature with species found (it was 50F by our vehicle thermometer). Highlights included: Western Meadowlark (hard to find in this county anytime of the year, let al

[mou] Huge Migration in NW Minnesota (Long and Chatty feel free to delete)

2005-03-28 Thread Heidi Ferguson
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2005-03-28 Thread empe...@aol.com
---1112023797 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Saw at 730am this morning at Shultz Lake, Lebenon Park Egan I coyote About 120 -140 Sand hill Cranes fly over Eastern Meadowlark Song Sparrow Wood Ducks Ben Pearson Eagan, Dakota

[mou] Black Dog and Old Cedar, Sunday, 3/27/05

2005-03-28 Thread Chris Fagyal
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[mou] A warm thanks from The Raptor Center

2005-03-28 Thread Lisa Koch
Thank you, thank you, thank you, MOU members and birders. We at The Raptor= =20 Center are very grateful for your support and have been overwhelmed by your= =20 responses. To date, we have admitted 103 great gray owls, 3 northern=20 hawkowls and 6 boreal owls. While not all the owls survive or be

[mou] I love geeses to pieces/Ross's et al

2005-03-28 Thread Dedrick Benz
Chris and John Hockema and I headed from Rochester out to Rock County and back today in search of waterfowl. We focused on Rock, Nobles, Martin and Faribault counties. Most lakes were at least partly open, and waterfowl was not hard to find. The highlight of the day had to be in Nobles County