[mou] Rothsay Snowy, Grey Part., N.Harriers and OTHERS

Birded Rothsay, part of Douglas and others today. Found a SNOWY OWL NW of the intersection of 280th Avenue and 170th St. (This is where Wilkin 15 curves E after going 4 miles N from Wilkin 26.) It was a long ways out, up in the top of a small tree. This is 3 miles southwest of Lawndale so

[mou] Owl Prowl

The MRVAC Owl Prowl today had ten participants plus myself in each of the two parts. Starting at 4:30pm we headed down to Goodhue Co. where we found the Snowy Owl just south of CR9 and CR1 on a pole by the road. The bird flew out into a field where it sat allowing everyone a great view.

[mou] Canada Goose, Merganser, GHO, Bald Eagles, Ducks

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0034_01C6401D.8579A950 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New images loaded to my site from recent trips to Alma to Winona on 3/4 = and from Silver Lake on 3/3. I

[mou] Trumpeter SWANS (not geese)

As Forest Strnad gently pointed out, I certainly DID mean Trumpeter Swans (not geese.) However Forest was wrong about my fingers slipping on the keys...I think my brain slipped in to a fog of some kind (like my Rough-shouldered Hawks of yesteryear.) I thought it might be too late to be at

[mou] Short-eared owl Fillmore Co.

--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_6014_1141584008_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Spent yesterday afternooon (3/4) in southern Minnesota. Stopped at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Lanesboro, and saw a pair of tufted titmice, purple finches, red-bellied

[mou] Fillmore County also

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[mou] Koochiching County Three-Toed Woodpecker, Great Gray Owl

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C640B0.42C78619 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yesterday (March 4), Jim Otto and I observed a female Three-Toed Woodpecker on Koochiching County Highway 13, 1.3

[mou] Gyrfalcon, Dakota Co.

--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mar. 5, 2006 4:45pm - 5:10 Hi 55 and CR 42 Dakota Co. Adult gray morph Gyrfalcon perched on power pole near mile marker 216. It flew north to Inga Ave. and 132nd St (CR 42) where I watched it perch and hunt for

[mou] Duluth Owl Symposium

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0041_01C64013.F2432200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please join us in Duluth for a weekend of owls, owls, owls! We have = registrants from across the US and

[mou] Environment Day at Capitol

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0031_01C64048.2E14DCE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those who want to be a port of the collective voice to our = legislators. Attend the 5th Annual Protect

[mou] bird flu, birds and birders

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0014_01C640A9.CD6273F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The assumption that migratory birds are spreading the H5N1 virus is the = conventional wisdom, but far from