[mou-net] MRVAC meeting Thursday

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Weston
The April meeting of MRVAC will be at the newly remodelled Minnesota River Valley Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center 3801 American Blvd, Bloomington, this Thursday (4/22) at 7pm and will feature Mark Lenarz of the Minnesota DNR talking on Moose, Another Victim of Climate Change? Meetings are free

[mou-net] Cinnamon Teal

2010-04-19 Thread Barb Butch Ukura
The Cinnamon Teal was seen today at approx 7AM in the field south of the dairy farm and north in the flooded cornfield. The sun was at my back by the flooded cornfield and I had fantastic looks at the Cinnamon Teal. It was right next to the road. I would like to thank Sue Schumacher for

[mou-net] bluebird eggs

2010-04-19 Thread danerika
Hi All-- we found our first Eastern Bluebird eggs of the season today: http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika daner...@gmail.com the best shod travel with wet

[mou-net] Early Grasshopper Sparrow, etc. Dakota

2010-04-19 Thread Jim Mattsson
4/19 John Hockema and I watched a singing GRSP at the Great River Industrial Park near Randolph. This is my first April record for this species. Also had both meadowlarks singing very close to each other. At Lake Byllesby we found a single Baird's Sandpiper and one American Golden-Plover. Jim

[mou-net] Cinnamon Teal, Carver County

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Rosenberg
The Cinnamon Teal was still present as of 9:30 a.m. today (Monday April 19th). Thanks to Bob Eckert for helping me find the bird. Located on Salem Avenue, 1.5 miles south of highway 212 on the west side of the road. The teal was present fly between both sides (north south) of the farmhouse at

[mou-net] Cinnamon Teal not present

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Bartkey
Hi everyone, Forest Strnad and I tried for the Cinnamon Teal in Carver County this evening between 5:10 and 6:20 PM. We gave it a good hour of searching with scopes at both wet areas north and south of the farmhouse. We also checked out the wet area further south on the east side of the road

Re: [mou-net] Cinnamon Teal not present

2010-04-19 Thread Donn Mattsson
Donn Mattsson and I saw the cinammon teal today (Monday) after a long time searching . At around 5:00 tonight we located him at the end of the small stream which flows along the left side of the first field to the north of the farmhouse. We had originally seen a few ducks back in there on