[mou] Northern Hawk Owl in Duluth / No GC Rosy Finches

Hello, Betsy and I headed up to Duluth today to look for the Gray Crowned Rosy Finches, Northern Hawk Owl, and to check out the harbor/canal. The feeders are gone and so are the GCRF. Common Goldeneyes, Common Mergansers, and Mallards in the canal. Someone said they saw a female Long Tailed D

[mou] Spotted Towhee's an Early Bird

--part1_c0e.a716b4e.33011dd3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I spent Sunday, Feb. 11, 12:30-5:20 looking for the Spotted Towhee in Austin, Mower Cty. Alas, it did not show itself. The homeowner did see it at 8:00 a.m. and told me that it'

[mou] Black-backed Woodpecker, Lake County

I saw a female Black-backed Woodpecker in the western-most edge of Gooseberry Park. It was in the middle of a birch wood, pounding away. Michael Steffes Lake County

[mou] Gyrfalcon, Dakota Co.

The 170th St. Gyrfalcon put on a good show this afternoon. It was in view nearly continuously from 3-5 p.m., mostly perched on the irrigation pipe about 1/2 mi. S of 170th St. E and 100-200 yards E of U.S. 52. In 2 hr, I watched it make at least 8 separate passes through the large (~10,000

[mou] raptors, anyone?

gyrfalcon, a bit like clockwork: on 170th, south field, by 3:30--may have been ground-feeding first, then suddenly appeared on the irrigation equipment--made a couple of tentative flying feints at a duck, but quickly returned to perch sideshows: one mature bald eagle overhead one Cooper's haw

[mou] Pine grosbeaks in Pine County

--=_Part_83471_19244113.1171233838575 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I had a pair of pine grosbeaks visit my feeder this morning; this was the first I'd seen them at my place in two years, although I know

[mou] Baker Park Shrike

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0005_01C74DF8.077980E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I observed a Northern Shrike in Baker Park, Medina, MN near the corner = of CR 24 and CR 201 around 2:00 PM S

[mou] Spotted Towhee

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0087_01C74DCE.30F31FF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vern and I saw the Spotted Towhee in Austin at 3:10pm on Saturday. We = first saw it sitting in the bush nex

[mou] Aitkin Grackle +

Ventured north to Aitkin County yesterday (2/10) - Tamarack, CR 5/Palisade, CR 18, CR 3 & 1. Tamarack - Nine Sharp-tailed Grouse present, eight 1/2 mile south of town, one under the second set of feeders on Kestrel Avenue. Pine Grosbeaks & a single Shrike also present. CR 5/Palisade - Surpris