[mou] Upland Sandpiper

2006-02-16 Thread Steve Weston
Hi Matt, I am not sure that there is a reliable place in SE Minnesota to find the Upland Sandpiper. Looking at the 1998 Hertzel Janssen MOU paper County Nesting Records of Minnesota Birds shows only three counties (and I'm stretching SE Minnesota to include all the counties south and east of

[mou] Upland Sandpiper

2006-02-16 Thread Chad Heins
Upland Sandpipers are regular summer residents in the Kasota Prairie area of southwestern Le Sueur County and adjacent Blue Earth County. This area has also had summer records of Henslow's Sparrow and Loggerhead Shrike (documented nesting). Other great regulars to that area include Grasshopper

[mou] GBBC - News Coverage

2006-02-16 Thread Stan Merrill
Hi! A reporter from our weekly newspaper,Apple Valley This Week, per suggestion of our Mayor, wants to meet with me for an article. If you have topics and/or suggestions that I should be sure to include, your e-mailing me ASAP will be appreciated. Thanks! Stan Merrill stan_...@yahoo.com

[mou] GBBC - News Coverage

2006-02-16 Thread Sharon Stiteler
How about what's going on with the Non Game Department in the DNR? Lee Pfannmuller says changes in the Nongame Program are part of an overhaul of the Ecological Services Division, and the overhaul is still in the proposal stage. It looks like the Nongame Program is being taken away from

[mou] Non Game Change Source

2006-02-16 Thread Sharon Stiteler
I've gotten some emails about where I got my information. Here is the news blurb that I got from news.google.com. It looks like it originated from the Pioneer Press and made it into the Grand Forks Herald: Sharon Stiteler Minneapolis, MN www.birdchick.com Bird/Wildlife Observation

[mou] Non Game Change Source

2006-02-16 Thread Dennis/Barbara Martin
There was also a large article in the sports section of the Minneapolis paper on either Sunday or Monday. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmar...@skypoint.com - Original Message - From: Sharon Stiteler sha...@birdchick.com To: mou-net mou-...@cbs.umn.edu; Mnbird mnb...@lists.mnbird.net Sent:

[mou] Trip to Aitkin

2006-02-16 Thread Larson Kelly
--Apple-Mail-7-763136131 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I may have a chance to do a little birding in Aitkin county tomorrow. I would appreciate location updates on recently seen owls and other birds

[mou] Birding today

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Hendrickson
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0038_01C6332F.29D5E140 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Birding with a couple from Florida: -Northern Hawk Owl: 1 mile east of Highway 73 on the Lind Road. The =

[mou] Sax Zim Bog logging news

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Hendrickson
I wish I took some photos of the recent logging events going on in Sax Zim Bog. For those that have a love for this place the photos would of mad you very sad or very angry. I am not making this up or blowing this out of wack but hear is a honest account of what is going in this bog. Those

[mou] Duluth RBA 2/16/06

2006-02-16 Thread Jim Lind
This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, February 16th, 2006 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was found by Lloyd Scherer on the 14th in Grand Marais near the Harbor View Apartments. A flock of 100 AMERICAN ROBINS was found by Mike Hendrickson on

[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, February 17, 2006

2006-02-16 Thread Jeanie Joppru
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000B_01C63336.259C7920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, February 17, 2006 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes

[mou] Sax Zim Bog logging news

2006-02-16 Thread shawn conrad
I agree, this is not a good situation. I am not against logging at all (in fact, I think it's the best tool we have for keeping industrial and county forestland from being parcelled off into lots until local politics evolves into something that serves interests other than those of developers,

[mou] MOU RBA 16 February 2006

2006-02-16 Thread Anthony Hertzel
--Apple-Mail-1-779024240 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, February 16th. On February 10th, Dan Beran reported a GYRFALCON near the Wakota