Re: [mou-net] Why we feed birds?

In a "down" time of my life, a friend once sent me a lovely print of a yellow-breasted chat, with this Chinese proverb: "Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps the singing bird will come." The singing bird is apparently highly valued in the culture. Linda Whyte On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:46 P

[mou-net] Why we feed birds?

Feeding the birds in China. I read in the China Daily newspaper this morning that a village in northern Beijing's Huairou district, Yangshodixia, celebrates China's lantern festival with a special festival of their own, the Liangqiao Festival. It seems two families traveled to a distant village

[mou-net] Blue Earth, Brown, and Nicollet County Field Trip 5/30-31

There is still plenty of room for participants on the May 30-31 MOU field trip in Blue Earth, Brown, and Nicollet counties. I know that this is prime time to be up along the North Shore in Duluth and Grand Marais, or at Agassiz NWR in the northwest, but why not go for a change of scenery th

[mou-net] Red Polls must go

As much as I regret it, I am asking the Red Polls or at least most of them to move on. During the 4 day GBBC I reported 568 Common Red Polls, one of the highest counts in the survey thus far, and that included a 30 minute count on Saturday, 7-7:30 AM, of 88. Given the entire day the count

[mou-net] Today's Duluth obs. & Sax-Zim Festival

Today I took a walk to Canal Park from my house (it's about a 35 minute walk all along Lake Superior)! On the walk down there, I saw one AMERICAN ROBIN closer to downtown, hopping throughout the 'landscape' trees, a Hairy Woodpecker just across the road from my house, and also observed European Sta

[mou-net] FW: posting on mou-net/mnbird

Please post along with the fact that we had White Winged Crossbills at Carpenter Nature Center over the weekend. Bird Programs at Carpenter Nature Center. Sunday, February 22 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. "Falconry: the Sport of Kings Revealed" Join Master Falconer and local raptor expert Frank

[mou-net] Another Bald Eagle headed north

Hiked at Kilen Woods SP again this afternoon and observed another adult BAEA ringing up and afterwards it headed up the west fork of the Des Moines river.   Eric Harrold Lakefield Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou

[mou-net] FW: Red Wing Eagle Watch

-Original Message- From: Laura Coble [mailto:shearwate...@frontiernet.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:58 PM To: 'mnb...@lists.mnbird.net' Subject: FW: Red Wing Eagle Watch Ann Tincher, who helped with our Red Wing CBC, sent this information to me about the Red Wing Eagle Watch

[mou-net] Shrike Calling; Aitkin; field trip update

Had a calling (surely that couldn't be singing!) Northern Shrike this morning at Kunkel WMA in southern Mille Lacs County - while I rarely hear them audibilize, tend to think of them doing so in March before leaving. Are others hearing them? Helped lead the Aitkin portion of the Saz-Zim trips

[mou-net] Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas headsup (owls)

As preparations for the first Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas move ahead with online data entry capability with Cornell's website scheduled for early March, it behooves us not to overlook any existing opportunities for documenting breeding birds. Safe dates (those dates that encompass the period whe