[mou-net] Mon Oct 7 yard sightings

On a cold rainy generally miserable day: 50+ goldfinches emptying Nyjer sacs as fast as I fill them 1 f. Ruby-throated Hummingbird foraging among the Rugosa roses John Nelson Good Thunder MN Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/

[mou-net] Black-backed Woodpeckers in northern St Louis County

On Sunday I found a female Black-backed Woodpecker on the Vermilion River Gorge Hiking Trail in Crane Lake in northern St Louis County. Then on Monday I found a male Black-backed Woodpecker at the Herriman Lake Hiking Trail. Other migrants were Hermit Thrush, Winter Wren, Fox Sparrow, and numerous

[mou-net] update re: White-winged Dove - Duluth, St. Louis Cty.

This afternoon I went to the 40th West Erie Pier area to try my luck with the White-winged Dove first reported Sunday Oct 4th by Peder and others. I walked the road to the large sand piles in the SW corner of the impoundment. Huge (hundreds!) flocks of Horned Larks and Longspurs were flying a

[mou-net] Duluth Dove and Jaeger

As Don Kienholz wrote, Lars and I came to 40th as he was leaving. We first saw the dove in flight. It came from the east and flew into the line of willows along the water's edge on the far western edge of Erie Pier, and there it sat, hunkered down, maybe to roost? Earlier, from Wisconsin Point, we