[mou] Wilkin And Clay County birding

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Longtin
Mark, I got to see your Harrier flight this past Saturday in Stearns county, they do this U loop and stall out at the top of the U with a small barrel roll, at least this was what I saw a female Harrier doing.. I think I was just a mile west of Elrosa on State Route 71 (DeLorme Page 45, D 7

[mou] Snowy Egret, Scott Co.

2006-04-25 Thread Ned Winters
There is a somewhat elusive Snowy Egret in the freeway holding ponds in the SE corner of Hwy 169/101 and Scott Co. Rd. 18 in Shakopee near the Savage border. (5-C on page 473 of a Hudson Map Book) The best and safest place to look is to park in the Sam's Club parking lot and you can walk to the top

[mou] More birding excitement!

2006-04-25 Thread Dave Bartkey
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00EA_01C668A4.FC7FD880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi everyone! My mission this evening after work was to finally locate my = first-of-year blue-gray gnatcatc

[mou] FW: Lake Byllesby this evening

2006-04-25 Thread Laura Coble
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000__01C668A3.14AFA090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit _ From: Laura Coble [mailto:shearwate...@mchsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:56 PM To: 'mnb...@lists.m

[mou] Black-crowned Night Herons (Hennepin Co.)

2006-04-25 Thread alyssa
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0005_01C6689D.C0B7C120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Went birding at the local pond near my house today. The main highlight = was the regular summer pair of BLACK

[mou] Cattle Egret-Stearns

2006-04-25 Thread Milton BLOMBERG
This afternoon at the Holdingford Public School pond (the Environmental Resource Area that the FFA has been developing, NE of the Elementary buildling beyond the softball fields) a docile Cattle Egret was gobbling up probably chorus frogs, sometime a peck a second. One student got some digitals

[mou] BNA at Mpls Public Library

2006-04-25 Thread vlpear
As a staff member at Minneapolis Public Library, I was thrilled that we subscribed to this wonderful database. I'm so glad you mentioned it, Mark. The best news is that you don't have to live in Minneapolis to use it. To find Birds of North America from the library home page http://www.mplib.org ,

[mou] FW: Mississippi Kite Eden Prairie

2006-04-25 Thread Alt, Mark
-Original Message- From: Terry P. Brashear [mailto:terry.p.brash...@supervalu.com]=20 Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:45 PM To: Alt, Mark Subject: Mississippi Kite Keep your eyes peeled I had an adult Mississippi Kite fly over me in=20 Chanhassen about half an hour ago. It was heading in

[mou] Photo website update

2006-04-25 Thread Linda Krueger
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0001_01C66851.D8F851B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My Husband and I went to the Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin Sunday. For those who haven't been there - they have 15

[mou] Lark Sparrows

2006-04-25 Thread Pastor Al Schirmacher
Lark Sparrows have returned to Sherburne Refuge (Mahnomen Trail, not Blue Hill), also Alder Flycatchers and, surprisingly, first personal county White-throated Sparrows of year. Good birding to all! Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties

[mou] Minnesota River Valley - St. Peter - Redwood Falls - 4/24/2006

2006-04-25 Thread CRAIG MANDEL
April 24, 2006 Was out for a full day of birding for the first time in about 2 months. Spent the day birding along the Minnesota River Valley with Jeanne and Rick Specht. We did not encounter any unusual birds and overall the birding was rather quite. We started our day at the St. Peter Sewage p

[mnbird] RE: [mou] Feeding Robins

2006-04-25 Thread Sharon Stiteler
Robins will eat seeds cracked and out of the shell like sunflower chips and peanut hearts. You can also get bird seed mixes that have dried fruit and even dried mealworms to appeal to robins. When I used to work at the Wayzata wild bird store we had a bait shop in the same strip mall. Th

[mou] MRVAC meeting this thursday

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Weston
On April 27, 2006 the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter is pleased to welcome Tom Peterson, of the Minnesota Mycological Society. Tom will present a program on Spring Mushrooms of Minnesota just in time for the morel season. His presentation will include slides, notes on preparation, hea

[mou] Bird banding pliers.

2006-04-25 Thread snoe...@aol.com
---1145942934 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have a small band size pliers they would be willing to part with? A college project is in need of one. They have tried the banding supply outfits and found this