From 5PM to 6PM Sunday, the Slaty-backed Gull was easily findable along the
East Bay beach, from the Artists' Point parking lot (where it was jockying
for number one position in front of some bread tossers - a Herring Gull
attacked it pretty aggressively and chased it off) to just behind the
I was at BigStone on Friday and from 12 to about 1230 PM I watched one
adult Snowy Plover with both of the young. I also swung up to Thielke and saw
the Clarke's Grebe with the three young. It was easily visible from 62 at the
west end of the lake.
John Ellis-St. Paul
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Went to the nest on Sunday and counted what I believe were 3 in the
nest, one on the edge of the platform, and another
Sometimes ID'ing a bit early leads to interesting bloopers:
This morning Mark Junghans and I were birding the Prairie Wildlife Drive
portion of Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge near Princeton, MN. As we
sighted the final pool, I remarked about the commotion in the water:
There's the loon
My favorite story of that sort is this: Once on a canoe trip with a
bunch of botanists we were slowly paddling up the Wawiag River in the
Quetico Provincial Park. This river feels like the one in African
Queennatural levees on each side with brush that obscures your
sightline to what's
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My big birding blooper was back around 1980 or 1981 or so when I was =
co-leading a bird identification class
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Humbling, yes
The regal White-tailed Bag Kite hover hunting near a marsh, sighted
on my first Santa Barbara CBC. It was white plastic
When we took a family vacation in the Badlands of South Dakota, I brought
everyone to a prairie dog town. My husband and kids were, of course,
charmed with the prairie dogs, but I had an ulterior motive. Scanning
carefully, voila! There it was, a Burrowing Owl perched on the edge of
one of the
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When I first moved to Minnesota from Indiana, I was SO anxious to
experience hawk watching--I couldn't wait to get to Hawk Ridge. I
had read
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Does anyone know of an on-line resource that includes audio files of
N.A. mammals?
I'm trying to identify a hoarse, repetitive bark I listened
As of 1:30 pm today, the gull was sleeping on the north side of the
inside breakwater, best viewed from the docks at the North House Folk
School. I was told by a birder from Two Harbors that he saw it earlier
in the day in its usual location on the East Bay beach.
Bruce Stahly
Grand
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Steve Roman reports the bird on the breakwater opposite the fish house =
in Grand Marais harbor.
I posted
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Just a nice resource that I found online regarding Slaty-backed Gull ID
that I thought people would like to look at:
http://www.birdskorea.org/slatybackedgull.asp
Chris Fagyal
Senior Software
This morning at 6:45 am there was a Peregrine Falcon perched at the
traditional spot on the tower above the BOVEY lettering on the hill in
Bovey.
This afternoon I saw a Great Egret at Hennessey Lake. Hennessey is a few
miles south of Grand Rapids--just south of CR 67--and easily visible from
scene: 2000 Fergus Falls CBC by open water on the Otter Tail River in
residential Fergus Falls
weather: near blizzard-like conditions all day
The Bloopees (Gayle and Ruth Beecher, Sandy Dan Thimgan) were scanning the
river for waterfowl when we spotted a hunched-over, raptor-like shape down
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