[mou] Ramsey Co. Lakes

--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_1129_114259_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We checked out several Ramsey Co. lakes today. Very windy day. Lake Como: Free of ice. Loons, scaup, buffleheads, red-breasted merganser, pied-billed grebe. Phalen: Free of ice. Great egret i

[mou] Chukars

I have a Chukar in my yard...for the last 3 days.. must of escaped from the horse and hunt club out here in prior lake... any ideas as to what to do with it .. i understand they arent native to minnesota...she(?) has been eating seed i put out for the birds.. and digging around in the dirt ..did

[mou] Merlin, Grand Marais

Spring in Grand Marais means falcons pursuing pigeons, and today I got a great look at a Merlin tearing up its prize in front of World's Best Donuts, downtown Grand Marais. For a photo see: http://www.boreal.org/~bstahly/Birds/Merlin11a.jpg Bruce Stahly Grand Marais

[mou] Heron and big fish

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0002_01C65A54.49E53A70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We saw our first great blue heron of the season today at Central Park in Roseville, Ramsey County. We were walking our d

[mou] Ross's Goose - Silver Lake, Virginia

--=__PartA184DE1B.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is a lone Ross's Goose with the Canada Geese today on Silver Lake. = First of the year C. Loon showed up yesterday. =20 =20 Deborah Buria-Falkowski Mesabi Range Community and Techni

[mou] Mute Swan; Migration

Mute Swan in Sherburne Refuge this morning (small lake on back side of Blue Hill Trail, 30-40 minute walk in). New arrivals in area: Common Loon (on the sewage ponds!), Sharp-shinned Hawk, YB Sapsucker (probable, short fly over look), RC Kinglet, YR Warbler today; RB Merganser yesterday, Hermi

[mou] Birding around the Metro

Yesterday the ice went out on Quiggley Lake. this morning there were two hen and one drake wood ducks by our shore. One of the hens spent a while in the same wood duck box that yesterday hosted a Hooded Merganser hen. Hopefully, tomorrow I will return home early enough to check out the box.