[mou-net] Jackson County - August 9 - 11, 2009

August 9, 10, 11, 2009 Led a field trip to Jackson county for the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter over the last three days. Here are a few of the species observed by the group; August 10, Gray Partridge - 7:30 pm - CR 16, 1/4 mile East of CR 17. 2 adult birds and 2 immature birds were

[mou-net] tool use in crow family

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[mou-net] correction: Birds 'n' Beers, the 15th

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[mou-net] Birds 'n' Beers reminder

(Please excuse me if this is not an appropriate place for this message, but it seems the recent swift count is worth live discussion of our various experiences.) For those who like a chance to meet other birders of all kinds, and discuss anything related to birds, Sharon Stiteler has set the next

[mou-net] Chimney Swift report

Greetings: I see some of you are reporting your Chimney Swift watch sights to MOU.  We reported to Ron Windingstad.  Here is our report:   Friday, August 9th we watched a short chimney on a house just north of our apartment in Faribault.  Kirsten heard three swifts and we saw three birds flying

Re: [mou-net] Chimney swifts - Grand Marais

That's been my experience at two sites, so far. The first is one that sheltered over 130 swifts last August. This year, there is a gathering of a feeding flock, considerably smaller than last year's, of which only a handful enter the same chimney. I believe there may be a nesting pair in there, bec

[mou-net] Chimney swifts - Grand Marais

We found a large brick chimney at the old high school in Grand Marais (Fifth Street N. and Second Avenue). About 50 swifts were seen entering it at dusk on August 8. Having gotten the swift fever, we watched a old factory chimney in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood last night (Aug 10) but saw only abou

[mou-net] Cowbirds

So tonight I've been working on getting shots of the two Cowbird young, one is being fed by a Chipping Sparrow, and one by a male Northern Cardinal.. So that's three species in my yard that have been duped by them counting the Baltimore Oriole that earlier in the month was feeding one.. I'm

[mou-net] A new species of shorebird

Opps! My previous post listed a really new species that we won't find in our field guides -- a short-billed SANDPIPER. Unfortunately we can't add that one to our life lists. DOWITCHER might be a bit more accurate. Another topic: The Sparrow Workshop scheduled for October 9 - 11 is completely f

[mou-net] Shorebird Workshop

The shorebird workshop put on by Bob Janssen and I for 20 attendees this last weekend in Milbank SD was successful considering the very limited habitat due to dry conditions this year. We found the following 18 species: American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Killdeer American Avocet Greate

Re: [mou-net] shorebird ID question

Thanks to everyone who helped with the ID of this sandpiper -- there were well over 200 views of the photo on Flickr. Although a couple of people thought this was a spotted sandpiper, the majority by far said solitary sandpiper. This list is such a great resource, thank you all! Gail -Origi

[mou-net] Why do we bird?ut it is bBy classifying nature that we come to know it in all its beetleness and daffodility.

As the fall migration is gets underway, I stumbled on this artlice in today's New York Times about why taxonomy matters. I thought some of the folks on the list might, too, As Carol Yoon writes,"it is by classifying nature that we come to know it in all its beetleness and daffodility. I mig