[mou] Airport Snowy Owl(Hennepin County)

2005-12-20 Thread Williams, Bob
After several fruitless attempts to see this bird it was quite easy to see this morning at about 9:30 perched on top of the small building marked 2680 and located in the FEDEX parking lot that is on your left just after you go through the 2nd tunnel(take the 66th St. Exit off Cedar). The bird

[mou] Snowy Owls at Mpls airport

2005-12-20 Thread Bill Ruth Stauffer
At 9AM today there were two Snowy Owls at the south[near] end of the FeDex parking lot, quite close together. One was on a TV antenna on the small building just south of the lot, the other on the south-most light post on the west side of the lot. They were still there when a left at 9:20. Bill

[mou] Crows mobbing a mink

2005-12-20 Thread robert.ocon...@ndsu.edu
Hi, I just investigated a flock of mobbing crows and found that they were upset at a mink dragging a dead or dying rabbit through the snow. I’ve never seen crows mob a predatory mammal before, but I suppose it makes sense that they would. Bob O’Connor Moorhead, Clay County

[mou] Dakota County - Yellow-Rumped Warblers, Black-Legged Kittiwake

2005-12-20 Thread Doug Kieser
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C605C4.16DE184E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This afternoon there were 4 Yellow-Rumped Warblers in the junipers at Lake Byllesby Regional Park. Other

[mou] Possible Iceland Gull, kittiwake -Black Dog

2005-12-20 Thread James Mattsson
--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 12/20/05 4:45pm Black Dog, west lake on ice A sleeping immature white-winged gull caught my eye among resting large gulls viewed from the observation platform along Black Dog Rd. It was partially obscurred by