[mou] MRVAC - Northeastern Minnesota - Field trip report - Sept. 17, 18, 19, 2006

2006-09-20 Thread CRAIG MANDEL
Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter Northeastern Minnesota Field Trip Report September 17, 18, 19, 2006 12 - participants 84 - species observed We enjoyed a great fall trip to Northeastern Minnesota, with many highlights. Including distant looks at the adult Little Gull. Thanks go out to

[mou] Fwd: [sd-birds] Update on the yearly Black-headed Gull and the Green Violet-ear in Sioux City

2006-09-20 Thread Jim Williams
forward by Jim Williams Wayzata, Minnesota Begin forwarded message: From: douglas chapman food...@sio.midco.net Date: September 19, 2006 10:11:23 PM CDT To: sd-bi...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [sd-birds] Update on the yearly Black-headed Gull and the Green Violet-ear in Sioux City Thought some

[mou] Tofte Cardinal

2006-09-20 Thread Dory
I saw a Cardinal in Tofte, Cook County this AM it was at Cooters auto repair About1 block up the Sawbill Trail from Highway 61 Dory Spence

[mou] Park Point Today

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Hendrickson
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0005_01C6DCC6.D0E54700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was scanning the lake at the Lafayette Square viewing platform from = 12-2:30pm and relocated some of the

[mou] Houston Co. Bluffside Rd. Microwave Tower Raptors

2006-09-20 Thread fred lesher
9AM-11AM. 55 degrees F. Clear. Calm 31 raptors of 6 species Turkey V.1 Osprey---1 Bald E.--2A, 1I No. Harrier--2(I or F) Broad-w. Hawk---23 (two kettles) Red-t. Hawk--1 Probable Merlin. Fred Lesher Tim Collins

[mou] Park Point update

2006-09-20 Thread Kim R Eckert
To follow up on Mike Hendrickson's posting earlier this afternoon: As of the time I left the 31st St / Lafayette Square observation site (4:15 pm), Jim Mattsson, Doug Kieser and I had several (~8?) more jaeger sightings. Most were too distant to safely ID: i.e., either juveniles or darker

[mou] Sabine's Gull, jaegers in Duluth

2006-09-20 Thread Jim Lind
At about 5:15 pm today a distant Sabine's Gull was briefly in view out from Lafayette Square at Park Point. Jim Mattson, Doug Kieser, and I watched as it was harassed by the Pomarine Jaeger while flying out over the lake towards Wisconsin. I could make out the bold black and white pattern on

[mou] Sabine's Gull, jaegers in Duluth

2006-09-20 Thread Peder Svingen
Ty and Ida Baumann, Robbye Johnson, Daryl Tessen, and others have been lake watching from Wisconsin Point yesterday and today. The Baumanns reported seeing an Arctic Tern on the Wisconsin side of the state line yesterday morning. A juvenile Sabine's Gull (probably the same one seen by Jim LInd

[mou] Jaeger Central

2006-09-20 Thread James Mattsson
--=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hope this is not overkill, but while Doug Kieser and I overlapped with several other birders previously mentioned by others today, Doug and I tallied no fewer than 20 sightings of jaegers between 1:30-6:30pm.