[mou] Shorebirds other birding

Shorebird Report for Dakota Co, Sunday afternoon Lake Byllesby Sand bars coming back as water levels drop, but high wind probably chased birds reproted by earlier observers into less exposed locations. One Killdeer Waterfowl: only expected dabblers Other birds: Black-crowned Nightheron -

[mou] Horned RN Grebes, Washington Cty

--part1_314.32ec627.3174b3d5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was delighted to find 5 Horned Grebes and one Red-necked Grebe on Eagle Point Lake in Lake Elmo Park. It's a shallow lake and 3 years of looking for (non-Pied-billed) grebes

[mou] Weekend Travels

HI Kim and I spent the weekend visiting potential stores for NatureScape News and doing a little birding, too. We found a Black-headed Gull in a small pond north of Spirit Lake in Jackson Co. There were a few Bonaparte's Gulls, 9 species of shorebirds - highlight 17 American Golden Plovers in

[mou] Great-tailed Grackle on Recently Seen - Wright County

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_001D_01C661FB.081901E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl Photo by Keith Pulles --- David Cahlander da...@cahlander.com

[mou] Swainson's Hawk-Dakota County

htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV class=RTEThe Swainson's hawk has returned to Dakota County. I observed the hawk at about 10:00 am, soaring at the intersection ofnbsp;US highway 52 and Dakota County 42./DIV DIV

[mou] Brainerd osprey

We saw an osprey in a platform nest about 5 mi. North of Brainerd along Hwy 210/169 Saturday evening. A Chipping Sparrow showed up at home (Ottertail Cty.) today. Saw some odd behavior by 2 Canadian Geese on Friday morning on the Deer River, MN settling ponds. They were all flattened out on the

[mou] Few informational notes

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C66239.D630271C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All, Did some weekend birding.. A few things I found, I see that the = Bald Eagles are on the nest in Carlos

[mou] Easter in Beltrami County

--Apple-Mail-2--517064525 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The store had it's first ever Bird Walk on Easter Sunday morning. Eight participants enjoyed the Lake Bemidji lakefront and later, several

[mou] Baptism R. etc. Lake Co.

Yesterday we drove to Finland, then went east on Lake Co. #7, which follows the Baptism River for several miles. Along this stretch we found one Common Loon, about a dozen Ring-necked ducks, 2 male Common Mergansers, one male Wood Duck, one male Kingfisher, and along the road numerous Com.

[mou] Wilson's Phalarope and American Bittern, Nicollet County

This morning I found a Wilson's Phalarope spinning in the water at the Nicollet sewage ponds. Also, at the nearby Conservation Club access on the south side of Swan Lake, in addition to the many waterfowl there were Forster's Terns, Greater Yellowlegs, Wilson's Snipe, Black-crowned Night-Herons, a

[mou] FW: MOU checklist in taxonomic order

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C66245.F07CD9DB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I asked the question today of why ducks were listed first, when all my life I had loons, grebes, and cormorants heading up

[mou] Carolina Wren-Olmsted Cty, Swainson's Hawk - Fillmore Cty

There is a Carolina Wren singing upstream from the parking area at the end of Old Valley Road. You can usually hear Red-shouldered Hawks and sometimes Winter Wrens from this same location. I wouldn't venture any further than the path that leads straight ahead to the river because of the

[mou] Weekend/Douglas County

Found a Winter Wren on my property in Douglas County (I was actually looking for one for my county list.) I'm drawing down one of my beaver ponds and there were 13 Greater Yellowlegs and about 75 waterfowl present (including first farm Pintails.) Lake Osakis had scores (perhaps hundreds)

[mou] Birding at work

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00EA_01C66244.F6D525E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi everyone, I drive an electric forklift where I work, and when it's nice out like = today, I daydream of

[mou] Eurasian Wigeon

Nathan I had an Eurasian Wigeon this evening on the Sherburne CR 2 lagoon ponds. Unfortunately the bird is currently on the back pond, which cannot be seen from the main gate. I do have a key, but can only access the ponds after business hours. If interested in chasing this bird tomorrow

[mou] Eurasian Collared-Doves, Carver County

At noon today I observed 2 Eurasian Collared-Doves in downtown Hamburg, southwestern Carver County. The doves were seen flying from the Post Office, and on the lawn across Louisa Street from the Post Office. Doug Kieser Minneapolis

[mou] GHO Photo Journal

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00C3_01C66269.BA2AC0D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My wife and I are doing a photo journal of a Great Horned Owl Family. = We thought at this point we would

[mou] E. Towhee Field Sp. Ritter Farm

Keith Olstad and I birded Ritter Farm in Scott County this morning. Saw our first eastern towhee and field sparrows. Other than that, a gloriously slow birding day. Chet Meyers, Heenepin County

[mou] Clay County--4/17

Hi, The Chestnut-collared Longspurs are back at the Felton Prairie, along with Marbled Godwit, Loggerhead Shrike, Brewer's Blackbird, and at least 52 Greater Prairie-chickens on 4 leks. Earlier in the day, I had a Northern Goshawk sail over me in South Moorhead. Bob O'Connor