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2009-07-12 Thread Raymond Potthoff
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[mou-net] Great Crested Flys fledge St Louis Cty Duluth

2009-07-12 Thread Don Kienholz
The family of Great-crested Flycatchers fledged and left the nest box this morning July 12th Rice Lake Twp just North of the city of Duluth. Upon inspecting the nest box they were using I discovered one unhatched egg of the six that started in the clutch, so I think they were successful in re

[mou-net] Shorebirds, Brown Co.

2009-07-12 Thread Brian & Risa Smith
The shorebird migration is starting to pick up at the Sleepy Eye sewage ponds over the past few days. Today there were: 1 Baird's, 2 Pectoral; 2 Semipalmated and 11 Least Sandpipers; 2 Lesser Yellowlegs and 2 Wilson's Phalaropes. Not big numbers but still, it's nice to see some migration agai

[mou-net] Orchard Orioles, St. Paul

2009-07-12 Thread Julian Sellers
Yesterday afternoon, I saw an adult male Orchard Oriole feeding three recently fledged young in the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, which is just east of downtown St. Paul. The birds were near the base of the bluff in the southeastern part of the sanctuary. The location is not in a BBA priority

[mou-net] Afton Summer Tanager Refound

2009-07-12 Thread Joel Claus
I was able to relocate the first year male Summer Tanager reported by Liz Harper about 7:15 this morning. I found the bird singing along the west side of the "Africa Loop" of Trailrun race course well north of the junction with the "Back40 Loop" and was able to watch it for about five minutes

Re: [mou-net] Red-headed Woodpecker

2009-07-12 Thread Howard Coston
I vacationed in Eagle Bend, MN over the 4th of July week, and see on the MOU listserv that Red-headed Woodpecker sightings are receiving a lot of interest. While in Eagle Bend, I golfed at the local course, The Double Eagle, and while on the course I observed a Red-headed Woodpecker on two sepa

[mou-net] Snowy Egrets, Dickcissels

2009-07-12 Thread roy zimmerman
Vic Lewis, Bill Brown, and I went out for a few hours this morning looking for some of the recently reported birds.  56 species in a a short three hour outing. At Purgatory Creek there were two snowy egrets, about 75 pelicans, Caspian terns, least sandpipers, lesser yellowlegs, etc. At Old Ceda