[mou] Die-off of Waterbirds Underway on Lake Onalaska/Upper Pool 8

2005-04-11 Thread Jim Barrett
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0004_01C53EDE.E2AA4A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This news release was forwarded to me by a friend who is a waterfowl = biologist for the MN-DNR. Another war

[mou] Update from Aitkin County

2005-04-11 Thread Warren Nelson
On Sunday, Bill Stauffer and I birded around the county in the morning and Steve and Jo Blanich and I birded in the afternoon and found a total of 81 species of birds. We found 11 GREAT GRAY OWLS ( 2 on C.R.1, 2 on C.R.29, 4 on C.R.68, 2 on Pietz's Road about a mile and a half north of C.R.18 and 1

[mou] c. goldeneye nesting

2005-04-11 Thread Bill Tefft
It surprised me yesterday to find a hen common goldeneye in a nest cavity this early in the spring. It was interesting that a pileated woodpecker had been in this cavity last Wednesday and a few days before that. I am not sure if the goldeneye will continue to be in the cavity or when it might s

[mou] Forster's Tern Wood Lake Hennepin Co.

2005-04-11 Thread Conny Brunell
This morning at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Hennepin County there were a couple more new arrivals in addition to the previously reported migrants. I enjoyed watching the Forster's Tern drop spiral splashing head first in the lake with that long forked tail trailing behind. There were

[mou] AVOCET - Anoka Co. (absent)

2005-04-11 Thread Bill Litkey
I checked throughout Carlos Avery WMA this morning for the Avocet, but to no avail. It probably did not help for there to be a Peregrine observed hunting in the area that the Avocet was reported. Bill Litkey --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html -

[mou] E. Rush Lake birding near Rush City

2005-04-11 Thread Alt, Mark
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C53EBF.C4191B22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I fished and birded in Chisago County Saturday and Sunday and was amazed at the concentration of waterfowl along the extreme

[mou] lake Bylessby gull and shorebirds

2005-04-11 Thread
Stopped at lake Bylessby yesterday afternoon and found an interesting gull. The gull appeared to be slightly larger than the Herring Gulls it was associating with. It appeared to be a first year bird with pure white head and mottled beige plummage. Wingtips were light dirty brown. The wing ti

[mou] 19-count em-19 avocets

2005-04-11 Thread Timmerman, Janet
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C53EA4.21145E0E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On the northwestern shore of Lake Wilson in Murray County this morning = was a group of 19 American Avocets, in t

[mou] French Lake Sunday 4/11/2004

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Fagyal
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[mou] Hawk-Owl nest photos

2005-04-11 Thread Terence Brashear
It's great that Mike Hendrickson and Tom Auer were able to relocate the nest site, but I want to make sure that credit is given to Mike Dazenbaker for the initial find. Mike has been out in Sax Zim probably as much as the locals this winter. Mike Dazenbaker posted a beautiful image of a pair toge