[mou] Re: [mnbird] Migration window?

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Weston
In central Minnesota I would expect that it would be the Horned Lark. They leave when the first major snow hits the area, usually in late November or in December, but sometimes even later and can be found returning in February. They probably often don't even leave the southern part of the

[mou] MRVAC - SE Minnesota - Field Trip Report - 12/5/05 - Goodhue/Wabasha Counties

2005-12-06 Thread egretc...@aol.com
---1133884595 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 12/5/2005 Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter SE Minnesota - Goodhue/Wabasha Counties Field Trip Report 9 - participants 33 - Species observed or heard by the group

[mou] Sherburne NWR, Ann Lake (Solitaire present)

2005-12-06 Thread Pastor Al Schirmacher
Walked portions of Blue Hill Trail and the Ann Lake snowmobile trail this morning, also toured the Wildlife Drive. Highlight was the Townsend's Solitaire at Ann Lake, also a Northern Shrike scattering a flock of waxwings. An Eastern Screech Owl called twice before dawn on Blue Hill; single

[mou] Sax Zim Bog today

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Hendrickson
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000D_01C5FA82.16E4C0F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Saw the following: -20+ Rough-legged Hawks -Great Horned Owl artic race -Northern Shrike -Black-backed

[mou] NW Minnesota (Polk Co.) Snowy Owl

2005-12-06 Thread Emery, Nathaniel G
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C5FABB.571643BC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This afternoon my friend Adam Koplin and I located a Snowy Owl in Polk = County north of the University of

[mou] Celebrate Minnesota's 100th CBC Anniversary

2005-12-06 Thread ignacio_mag...@rohair.com
Have you made your plans to participate on a Minnesota CBC yet this season? Looks like there will be 67 counts to choose from this year with only 28 of those occurring on the first weekend. You could contribute to one of the highest count totals for one of the usual leaders; Bloomington, Duluth,

[mou] Snowy Owl at Duluth Airport

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Lind
This afternoon at about 4:00 pm there was a Snowy Owl along Airport Approach Road, on top of a telephone pole near the end of the runway. Airport Approach Road can be reached by turning north off US Highway 53 at Stebner Road, which I think becomes Airport Approach Road when you pass the

[mou] Need bird identification - Please!

2005-12-06 Thread Linda Krueger
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0003_01C5FAB2.3D711130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would appreciate identification of two birds that flew into a Crabapple tree in my front yard today. I have posted a photo

[mou] Thank you!

2005-12-06 Thread Linda Krueger
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000__01C5FABD.4A806AA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've gotten a number of replies regarding the bird identification I requested off of my website. House Sparrows! Some felt