[mou-net] [mou-rba] MOU RBA 18 March 2011

-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *March 18, 2011 *MNST1103.18 -Birds mentioned Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Tundra Swan American Wigeon Northern Pintail Long-tailed Duck Ruddy Duck Common Loon Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Merlin American Coot Northern Flicker Clark's Nutcracker Ea

[mou-net] Turkeys & Trumpeters!

I was on a business retreat yesterday (Thurs) in the conference cottage at St Croix River Bluffs Regional Park (Washington Co). As I drove from Rte 10 onto St Croix Trail and proceeded up the hill to the left curve in the road, I saw at least 40 "wild" turkeys feeding in the yard of the house on th

Re: [mou-net] Long-tailed ducks

Ben Wilson wishes to express thanks for the posting of those Long-tailed ducks in Agate Bay. He has just scoped and counted 38 of them, near the coal-chute docks, as seen from the breakwater. Linda Whyte On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Bruce Munson wrote: > 20 long-tailed ducks in Agate Bay in

[mou-net] Rice Count, St. Patrick's day

Ring-billed Gull - 6   American Coot - 7   D-b Cormorant 14, but not at island in Wells Lake Lesser Scaup - 2   Ring-necked Duck - 5   American Robin - 2   Red-winged Blackbird - 1 foy     Shoveler  foy - 1   Ruddy - 1, foy Forest Strnad Faribault, MN.  Join or Leave mou-net: http://li

[mou-net] Dakota County - Lake Byllesby and Hastings Great Egret

My wife and I birded between Lake Byllesby and Hastings and came up with several early migrants. The 1000+ geese at Lake Byllesby were still present, but difficult to view down at the west end of the lake. We saw numerous Greater-white fronted and Cackling Geese with the Canadas, but could not s

[mou-net] Coon Rapids Dam March 18

A Pied billed grebe was working the west side about 300 yds north of the dam. It was very near a lone coot and both were near the shore. Two gb Herons flew over to the NW. Thomas P. Malone Attorney at Law Barna Guzy & Steffen Minneapolis Minnesota tmal...@bgs.com (Via BlackBerry)

[mou-net] Holy buckets of eagles!

Three of us drove down to Wabasha and into Wisconsin looking for Peregrines and eagles. We got exactly what we wanted. At the rest area in Lake City we had atleast 70 BAEA sitting out on the ice. By the end of the day we had >150 eagles! The Wisconsin side was just as productive and included in one

[mou-net] goethite WMA

Birding around the Goethite WMA in Fillmore County. Again 3 trumpeters and 9 sandhills in addition the usual geese wood ducks, lesser scaup and ring billed ducks. New today was a flock of Eastern Meadowlarks (15) and bluebirds (5) and a fox sparrow. Also noted an immature Bald Eagle, numerous