[mou] Birding Ely to Sax-Zim - mountain bluebird

The weekend presented lots of opportunties to observe birds. Saturday in Ely - Northern shrike flushing a flock of snow buntings; eagles contesting food with ravens and crows; crows driving a rough-legged hawk away in the same area; still a common loon and common mergansers on Shagawa Lake; ~50

[mou] Philadelphia Vireo in Cook Co

The Minn Birding Weekends group found a very late Philadelphia Vireo yesterday, 6 Nov, at Naniboujou Lodge in Cook Co; a couple of us were able to get identifiable photos. Otherwise, we found the land birding this past weekend up the North Shore generally quite dull, as it has been almost all

[mou] Cattle Egret in Knife River

I got a call this morning from a woman in Knife River who has been seeing a Cattle Egret in Knife River for two days. When I came, the bird was feeding along a ditch next to the main road through town (I think the one from Emily's Cafe, though I turned in from the freeway). I took a few photos,

[mou] Cattle egrets

On Friday morning I saw two cattle egrets in Stearns county, about 7 miles South of Sauk Center along highway 71. One bird was feeding in a herd of...cattle, the other was flying. Randy Frederickson Willmar

[mou] Iceland Gull and Cattle Egret - Beaver Bay, Lake Co.

Deb Falkowski left a message on the Duluth RBA that she and her husband Steve found a pale first-winter Iceland Gull on the dock at the end of Fish House Road in East Beaver Bay this morning. This is a steep, narrow, dead end road about a half mile east of County Road 4. Gulls often

[mou] More Details on Upcoming Field Trip

--=_Part_2039_17892856.1131414293667 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline There have been lots of requests for more details on the upcoming MOU Field Trip on Gulls in Duluth. So, I'll fill out a few more details.

[mou] Carolina Wren, Waseca County

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0017_01C5E3D9.A0C8A6C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This morning, I saw a Carolina Wren in Courthouse Park, Waseca County. = It was investigating nooks and

[mou] MOURC membership

The Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (MOURC) is seeking a new member for a term of service beginning January 2006. MOURC implemented term limits about a decade ago; the committee has added at least one new member annually since that time. MOU membership and access to e-mail