[mou] More info on Janie Olyphant

Cathy Clayton sent this to me and requested that I send this to the listserves: To all those who knew Janie Olyphant and have expressed an interest in learning more about her, the St. Paul Pioneer Press had a lovey obituary in today's (Nov 16th) edition. An obiturary is planned for the Star Trib

[mou] Snowy Owl-Eagen

--part1_15a.5c4252ab.30ad1af0_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry for the late post: a staff person at the MN. Valley N.W.R. told me today that she saw a Snowy Owl on Sunday evening, 8:00, at the intersection of Hwy 77 and 13. She was exi

[mou] Red-shouldered NOT red-tail

--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9593_1132160918_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The hawk I reported sitting on top of my bird feeder last Sunday was a red-shouldered hawk, not a red-tailed hawk. Thanks to Julian Sellers for IDing it from the photos. Quite a remarkable yar

[mou] W-w Scoter-Dakota Co.

--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Nov. 16, 2005 Lake Byllesby 9:30am I braved the blizzard conditions this morning and was rewarded with a single White-winged Scoter being thrashed about in the middle of Lake Byllesby. I saw only 3 Lesser Scaup

[mou] Hummingbird!

Had a female hummingbird visit our feeders at least three times this morning. Cherie saw her first. Even with rotating feeders I am not able to keep them thawed and I am not sure that she ever got anything. She was not able to figure out our newer fancy glass ball feeder, although she drank th

[mou] Great gray owl, Aitkin County

This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 005B3116862570BB_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Last night, Doug Kincade reported a Great gray owl in last year's "owl field" along Aitkin County Rd 4, approximately 5 miles west of State Hwy 65. Cheers, Michelle McDow

[mou] New Prague Cackling Geese

11/15 Stopped by the New Prague sewerage ponds on CR15 north of town. Found at least ten Cackling Geese. There may have been many more, but I did not have time to check out the many small sleeping geese to sort out the Lesser Canadas. There were also about 70 Redheads and a few scaup, hoode