[mou] Lake Pepin to Wabsha

Before I even started out, I found a Brown Creeper climbing the oak outside our kitchen. I called my wife over to show her. She exclaimed, "How can you tell what it is? It's so small!" Too small for me to call her over. She only likes big birds. Lake Pepin had at least three large rafts of

[mou] Winter Species Map problem

While entering my day trip reports for Saturday and Monday AM on the MOU site this morning, noticed that there appears to be a problem with the Winter "Species Map" section. Has a Cass County fall report (or similar) somehow moved into winter? Many thanks to all those who work on the site! Al

[mou] MOU Photo Gallery

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0B4C_01C7331E.05D77430 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Two new features have been added to the MOU website. 1. Photo Gallery. A gallery of photographs of Minnesot

[mou] GT Towhee update, Mon. AM

I arrived at the Mtn. Lake feeder at 7:45 this morning, and the bird was present, and remained present until I left at 8 AM. Dedrick Benz Winona, MN _ >From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has it

[mou] Hedbom Road wonders 1-5-07

The wonders of Hedbom Road has left me studying three hours of video = shot there last Friday, learning more about these birds, reobserving = what I filmed. I was in the constant company of a total of six = Black-backed woodpeckers (2 female s, 4 males) and a male American = Three-toed Woodpecker.

[mou] Bayfront Park - Duluth, MN

Today while taking down some Holiday lighting, and trying to keep the skating rink ice from melting I found a Yellow Rumped Warbler. It is hanging around the bathroom and warming house bldg's trees and shrubs. It was foraging on the walls of the buildings, as well as on the ground and in the ju

[mou] displaying Sharp-tailed Grouse

As evidence of this winter's mild temperatures and relatively little snow cover, Sharp-tailed Grouse were in full display this morning on 2 Aitkin County leks, something I certainly have never seen before in January. One of these (with 3 males) was on the W side of Co Rd 31 / Kestrel Ave, 1.6 m

[mou] Silver Bay Catbird, Varied Thrush, and White-throats

I went to Bill and Susie Nelson's place in Silver Bay today, where I saw the Gray Catbird that has been visiting for two days, a male Varied Thrush, and two White-throated Sparrows. Last week they had both a male and a female Varied Thrush. I can give their email address and/or directions to thei

[mou] Itasca & Koochiching county birding

Jeff Stephenson, Bob Ekblad, Herb Dingmann, Jerry Pruett, Ron Erpelding, and I birded Itasca and Koochiching counties this weekend. We found the following notable species: Itasca County Three-toed Woodpecker - 1/6, male; at the corner of CR 227 an Pincherry Rd north of Cohasset Black-backed W

[mou] Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black Dog Lake, Dakota Cty

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C733A2.E078CFB8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A first-winter Lesser Black-backed Gull was observed from the power plant causeway at Black Dog Lake from 4:45-5:05

[mou] Afton SP TS

The Afton State Park Townsend's Solitaire was refound today at about 2:00 PM, at the location previously mentioned. It was feeding on berries in the deciduous scrub on the east side of the path, and spent some time preening, before flying overhead and northward into the line of cedar and pine