[mou-net] Fwd: Tundra Swans, Dakota and Goodhue Counties

2010-03-18 Thread Laura Coble
Begin forwarded message: From: Laura Coble shearwate...@frontiernet.net Date: March 17, 2010 7:00:44 PM CDT To: mnbird.l...@mnbird.net Subject: Tundra Swans, Dakota and Goodhue Counties Yesterday around 4:30 pm, I found 70 Tundra Swans and a mixed flock of ducks--Canvasback, Common

[mou-net] Cardinal Hawk Owl in northern St Louis County

2010-03-18 Thread dkuder
This year for the 1st time in Crane Lake, we have had a Cardinal overwinter, this morning he was singing. It was odd to hear, not something we're used to. As I was listening, I heard Evening Grosbeaks. The Pine Grosbeaks have left, the last Pine Grosbeak I saw was Saturday, the 13th. Then I

[mou-net] Snowy Owl, Glacial Ridge NWR

2010-03-18 Thread Kelly Larson
Spent yesterday searching for signs of spring in Polk county. There was a lot of water in western part of the county. Miles of beet fields were flooded to the ditches along 75 south of Crookston and along Cty Hwy 1 east towards Fertile. The wind whipped white caps on the fields and hundreds

[mou-net] Prescott and Lake Byllesby migrants today

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Mattsson
Prescott area 3/18 10:00-12:00noon First time in a while with non-northerly winds, and mostly Canada Geese were on the move. Everything else was quite slow, especially raptors. Most interesting were: Canada Goose = 2,620 - continuous flocks Gr. White-fronted Goose = 144 Cackling Goose = 2

[mou-net] Geese over St. Peter, Nicollet County

2010-03-18 Thread Robert Dunlap
Today I've been watching a significant movement of geese over campus here at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, This morning a flock of around 40 Canadas had a lone Greater White-fronted with it. Next came a mixed flock of 50 or so Canada and Cackling. A few pure Canada flocks came and

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2010-03-18 Thread Alice Laudon
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[mou-net] Migrant Waterfowl

2010-03-18 Thread Bruce Baer
Two very flocks of White-fronted Geese over Sand Point. Many flocks of Canadas on the move. In the corn stubble at Kellogg Dunes were 200 grounded Tundra Swans. Two Cackling Geese amongst the hundreds of Canadas at Orinoco. Three Trumpeter Swans in Whitewater Valley. I expected to see

[mou-net] Lake Byllesby, late afternoon today

2010-03-18 Thread Laura Coble
Between 5 and 6:30 pm, on the west side of Lake Byllesby (accessed from Hwy 88, 1/4 mi. east of Randolph, on a trail from the pullout), I saw most of what Jim Mattson saw in his previous report this am, except for the Sandhill Cranes and the hawks: I added Bufflehead and and Red-breasted

[mou-net] [mou-rba] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, March 18, 2010

2010-03-18 Thread Jeanie Joppru
-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *March 18, 2010 *MNDL1003.18 -Birds mentioned Snow Goose Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Mallard Northern Pintail Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Gray Partridge Sharp-tailed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Northern Harrier Golden Eagle American

[mou-net] Fillmore. Mower, and Steele Cty

2010-03-18 Thread Dennis and Barbara Martin
Fillmore At least 1500 Canada Geese moving in various places, 9 Sandhill Cranes in flocks of Canadas, 30 Tundra Swans on 121st Ave just south of 200th St., both Eastern and Western meadowlarks singing, Long-eared Owl in Beaver Creek WMA (migrant as this bird not here last weekend, probably