[mou-net] baby Mallards

2011-05-10 Thread Steve Weston
Monday: This morning we had a Mallard hen with five new babies in the yard! Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net 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] Grounds of the Bakken Museum at L. Calhoun Mpls Monday 5/9

2011-05-10 Thread Cynthia Werner
Hi All,   I'm new to this list.   Looking into the garden at the Bakken Monday, I had lovely views of the following: Common yellowthroat Mourning warblers Ruby crowned kinglet Balt. Orioles Yellow warblers Yellow rumps Chimney swifts overhead Mourning doves Cardinals RWBs and Robins Nashville w

[mou-net] Veteran's Park (Hennepin County) Common Moorhen still present 5/10

2011-05-10 Thread Doug Kieser
Scott Meyer just called and asked me to post that the Common Moorhen at Veteran's Park in Richfield is still present near the floating boardwalk. Veteran's Park is located east of Portland Ave. south of the Crosstown. A large parking lot is east of the 64th St/Portland Ave intersection. Doug Ki

[mou-net] warbler fallout at hok-si-la Monday

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Engh
Wonderful day yesterday after the rain stopped and the gale force winds abated. There were white caps breaking over the lower parking lot at the Lake City wayside. 20 warbler species and many of most of the them. I've never seen Nashville's and Tennessee's almost as abundant as yellow rumps. An

[mou-net] 18 warblers

2011-05-10 Thread Pastor Al Schirmacher
18 warblers on Blue Hill Trail, Sherburne NWR this morning: * Blue-winged * Golden-winged * Tennessee * Nashville * Northern Parula * Yellow * Chestnut-sided * Cape May * Yellow-rumped (still most numerous) * Black-throated Green * Pine * Palm * Black-and-White * American Redstart *

[mou-net] WESTWOOD BIRD WALK

2011-05-10 Thread Victor Lewis
HI BIRDERS, The birdwalk at westwood hills nature center in st louis park scheduled for thursday at 8am has been changed to Friday!! The chance for inclement weather and a previous commitment have gone into the change.Hope to see a good turnout !!! come one!!! come all!!! Good birding!!! Vic Lew

[mou-net] Crosby Farm - 21 Warblers, 5 Vireos, plus other migrants

2011-05-10 Thread Scott Loss
I led the final outing for my birding class (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - Univ. of Minnesota) today at Crosby Farm Park in St. Paul. We were treated to continuing excellent numbers and diversity of migrants. Amazingly, the group of 20 participants was able to get great looks at almost all

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2011-05-10 Thread Stan & Molly Jo Miller-Johnson
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[mou-net] moorhen @ Veterans park now

2011-05-10 Thread Terence Brashear
Present on the north side of the canada goose nest to the north of the floating boardwalk 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] MVNWR - Bloomington, Visitor Center trails - Hennepin county - 23 species of Warblers

2011-05-10 Thread CRAIG MANDEL
May 10, 2011 Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Bloomington Visitor Center Hill side trail 6:00 am - 10:00 am While leading a walk for the refuge this morning, our group observed 23 species of Warblers along the upper and lower trails accessed from the Visitor Center Parking lot. The vi

[mou-net] Carver County 21 warbler species

2011-05-10 Thread John Cyrus
Good variety(20 species) and numbers of warblers were pretty much everywhere I stopped at Carver Park. A short stop at Rapids Lake(just visitors center and 1/2 mile loop trail) turned up 11 warbler species with one of those not seen at Carver Park. Yesterday at King Blind(Carver Park) there

Re: [mou-net] moorhen @ Veterans park now

2011-05-10 Thread Terence Brashear
I wanted to add some better directions.  If you take the trails on the east side of Veteran's Memorial Park in Richfield all the way North to the floating boardwalk you are in the right spot. The bird came out of the cattails and swam over to the little island in the middle of the pond.  It sto

[mou-net] funding for Breeding Bird Atlas

2011-05-10 Thread kess0010
At this time, there is BBA funding, at a reduced level, in the Minnesota Senate version of the energy & environment bill. However, there is no funding for the BBA in the corresponding House bill. Today is the first scheduled conference committee meeting to attempt to reconcile the two bills. Th

[mou-net] N & NW Rice County

2011-05-10 Thread Forest Strnad
This afternoon we drove N. on I-35 to Northfield exit and took Hwy. 46, east side of I-35, to Hazelwood. Going west we found our foy Barn Swallow.  Continuing on west to Cody Lake we found our foy Green Heron on north end of that lake. We also saw Trout Lily and Spiderwort and dandelions galore.

[mou-net] Norther Cardinal/Otter Tail County

2011-05-10 Thread Jim and Charlene Nelson
reported at feeders at 311 1st Ave S Perham by my Mom. Charlene Nelson 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] Hennepin County: Common Moorhen

2011-05-10 Thread Douglas Mayo
The Common Moorhen previously seen by others was paddling about in the west end of the north bay of Legion Lake in Veteran’s Park at 3:50 this afternoon. This area can be viewed from the boardwalk that bisects the lake. I last saw the bird as it entered the cattails about forty feet west of a

[mou-net] Carver County-more migants

2011-05-10 Thread John Cyrus
I decided to squeeze in some mid-afternoon birding from the north lot at Rapids Lake MVNWR. I had planned to stop there this morning, but with hunters out I decided to just bird the closed area. Despite the heat and humidity this afternoon birds were plentiful including some out in the open s

[mou-net] Field Ornithology in Sax-Zim Bog (with photo)

2011-05-10 Thread Erik Bruhnke
Today I took my field ornithology class to Sax-Zim Bog for a whole day field trip. We had a fantastic time, and the class not only got to experience several new birds that they have not observed via class species list, but also learned about the habitat and overall ecological-uniqueness of the bog.

[mou-net] Rejected posting

2011-05-10 Thread DaveKlein
Hi- I made an attempt to post some information I thought might of interest to Minnesota birders about the Chiricahuas and see that it was rejected. I am just following up to inquire about its rejection. Is it because it wasn't about Minnesota birding? This request is only for my understanding

[mou-net] Summer Tanager - Western Kanabec County

2011-05-10 Thread Ron Erpelding
This must be the spring for Minnesota Summer Tanagers! I found my second first spring male Summer Tanager at 2:10 p.m. today in western Kanabec County. (The first was in LeSueur County last Sunday.) This bird was seen on the south side of a dead end road (180th Avenue/Co Rd 55) just past fire num

[mou-net] corerection to previous e-mail

2011-05-10 Thread Forest Strnad
Rev. >From Hazelwood, we drove  west to Metogga Lake - not Cody Lake. Rev. Forest and Kirsten Strnad Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html