[mou-net] Salt Lake Festival

For this Sunday, following the Salt Lake festival, I am organizing a blitz to survey Yellow Medicine County for the breeding bird atlas. All are welcome to join us. See me at the festival or contact me. Steve Weston Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net

[mou-net] Recent Cinn. Teal sightings?

Hi everyone, I'd like to take another run at the Cinnamon Teal in Carver County. Has anyone seen it since Monday? I checked the MOU database and the most recent date was 4/19. Pretty long drive if it has moved on... Thanks in advance for any help on this! Good birding! Dave Bartk

[mou-net] Aitkin Co. Rd 18 & 5 short-eared owls & other sightings

I was out conducting a few dancing ground surveys and checking up on a few radio-collared sharp-tailed grouse in the Aitkin County Road 18 and 5 corridor. At one dancing ground I counted 16 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. I saw 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS owls about 2 miles west of Pietz's Road on the southside of CR

[mou-net] Sherburne NWR

Grasshopper, Lark, White-throated Sparrows and Eastern Towhees have moved into Sherburne Refuge. Been out of the loop a couple of days, so one or more of these could have snuck in behind my back on Monday or Tuesday. First towhee song of year was sort of sideways - three notes followed by a

[mou-net] Chimney Swift

Hi everyone, After a pretty lousy walk (well, ok, any walk in the woods is a GOOD walk, how about practically BIRDLESS walk?) this evening at River Bend Nature Center, my wife and I traveled to her brothers house for a bonfire, and after watching the sky closely for about two hours, I finally

[mou-net] Mockingbird in Afton

I saw my first Mockingbird in Afton after growing up with them in NJ. Bird was observed at 700pm on 42nd street and Paradox Court Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

[mou-net] Great Gray Owl in Aitkin County

This evening, Steve and Jo Blanich and I had a Volunteer's Banquet for the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge Volunteers and left early enough that we decided to take a quick drive up to Aitkin County Road 18. At 4:10 P.M., we found a GREAT GRAY OWL just to the west of the Hebron Cemetery near