[mou-net] Canal Park sightings

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Bruhnke
This morning I covered the length of Park Point, starting at Canal Park, where I had 2 young GLAUCOUS GULLS and a likely Thayer's Gull mixed throughout the Herring Gulls. Even though my 12x50 binocs provide a good amount of magnification, I wasn't 100% sure about that Thayer's/Herring Gull. As seen

[mou-net] Black-backed Woodpecker-Stearns

2009-01-07 Thread Milton Blomberg
Found a female Black-backed Woodpecker in a worked over stand of tamarack within the St. Wendall Tamarack Bog SNA. You will need snowshoes to work for this bird ~ 1/3mile deep into the bog. Find your way to St. Joseph, MN, N on CR2, Right on CR4 and after the road turns N, look for where I ente

[mou-net] Sax-Zim Bog / Duluth

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Hendrickson
Birding Today with Joe & Doug from Missouri/Illinois. Highlights: - 4 Great Gray Owls along the McDavitt Rd!! We saw the first one around 8:15am - 8:40am The owls were from the southern end around 3 miles north of Sax Rd (CR 28) to 4 miles north of Sax Rd. - Northern Hawk Owl was 1/4 mile n

[mou-net] Black billed magpie, SW Duluth

2009-01-07 Thread Deb Sewell
My husband Russ called me today to say he had seen a black billed magpie fly across State Highway 23 (Veterans Evergreen Memorial Highway) in Duluth. The location he gave was near the St. Louis River, in the vicinity of the Lake Superior College fire training center. (Approx. 1 mile west of Gary

[mou-net] Sax-Zim

2009-01-07 Thread sparky stensaas
Up in the bog for a short photo trip with my 5 month old son (He slept the whole time until I was about to photograph the Boreal Chickadees!).Monday afternoon 1/5Great Gray OwlLake Nichols Road 1 mile east of CR7 (The last three times I've seen this owl, it has been between 1.0 and 1.6 miles E o

[mou-net] not present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co.

2009-01-07 Thread George B Skinner
Wednesday, Jan 7, the owl was not in the box at 7:45 am. It has not been here for several days. George Skinner Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html