[mou] RE: Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, November 3, 2006

2006-11-03 Thread Jeanie Joppru
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0001_01C6FF10.49EBFD40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In Polk County on October 28, manager Pam Wockenfuss and I saw 2 of the three GRAY JAYS that she reported have

[mou] RE: Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, November 3, 2006

2006-11-03 Thread Jeanie Joppru
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0006_01C6FF10.711578B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In Polk County on October 28, manager Pam Wockenfuss and I saw 2 of the three GRAY JAYS that she reported have

[mou] Red Crossbills

2006-11-03 Thread Pastor Al Schirmacher
My son Nathan needs Red Crossbills for his life list - this looks like a good fall/winter to nail them down for him. I realize they are highly nomadic, but is anyone seeing them on a consistent basis in an area within a couple of hours of central MN? All replies welcome. Good birding to all!

[mou] Praising the water

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Maiello
--Apple-Mail-5--416514723 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Had a delightful experience today as my full and steaming-from-the- cold bird bath drew in a couple of first timers to my arbor. Amidst the

[mou] Finch Forecast Question

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Hendrickson
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0007_01C6FF3B.7A17A0C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Duluth weather is very hard to predict and most times our local = weathermen on TV are normally wrong when it

[mou] Surf Scoter - Washington Co.

2006-11-03 Thread Bill Litkey
Late this morning I observed a female Surf Scoter on White Bear Lake. It was viewed from the small beach at the end of Ash St. in the southeast corner of the lake, i. e., Mahtomedi. Bill Litkey (Oakdale) --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html -

[mou] Finch Forecast Question

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Fagyal
--=__PartA98DAA52.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, I just got informed that I mis-spoke regarding the Manitoba/Ontario provincial line. The map of the US I was looking at made it look like Ontario just covered a sliver of Minnesota above

[mou] Finch Forecast Question

2006-11-03 Thread Liis Veelma
Hello all The conditions in NW Ontario--where most likely the Minnesota northern finches come from as well as Manitoba-- normally differ from those in the NE parts of Ontario. For example, on a trip in the fall of 2005, I noted that mountain ash berries were abundant around the north edge of Lake

[mou] Eurasian Collared-Dove, Wright County

2006-11-03 Thread tana
Today there was a Eurasian collared-dove visiting with some mourning doves under the feeders in my backyard. This is the second collared-dove that I've had in my yard this year (the first was in March). Is this most likely the same bird? I believe that this bird constitutes the third record

[mou] Gyrfalcon

2006-11-03 Thread BillyJoe Unzen
Today at 12:15pm I had an adult gray-morph Gyrfalcon at the Plover Prairie = region in northern Lac Qui Parle County. This is 4 miles north of Belling= ham on Hwy75 then almost 3 miles east. It was first perched on a fence po= st there then flew southeast towards Louisburg. Bill Unzen

[mou] Finch Forecast Question

2006-11-03 Thread Larson Kelly
--Apple-Mail-1--390284128 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Liis and others, When you are feeling an abundance of Winter finches, please send some my way! I've been asking my customers for finch

[mou] 10,000+/- Tundra Swans, Pool 8, Miss. R. Houston Co.

2006-11-03 Thread fred lesher
View from Mile Marker 11, Hwy 26 south of Brownsville. New parking viewing area under construction. 15+/- Am. White Pelicans in the mix of white far to the east side of Pool 8. Fred Lesher LaCrosse, Wis.