[mou-net] Mergs Leave Nest

2011-05-20 Thread Don Darnell
A total of 15 recently hatched ducks jumped from their nest box into Red Rock Lake (Hennepin County) this afternoon while I was talking to the air conditioner repair guy out back. From the photo I took of the Hooded Merganser mom swimming off with the brood in tow, it looked like one or two of

[mou-net] Correction

2011-05-20 Thread Bruce...Hackensack, Mn
On previous post... Golden-Winged -- Hackensack/Longville Cass County, Mn 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] Beauty

2011-05-20 Thread Bruce...Hackensack, Mn
Had a gorgeous Y-Wing Warbler in my front yard this p.m. One of my favorites. -- Hackensack/Longville Cass County, Mn 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] Screech Owl foster parents sought

2011-05-20 Thread linda whyte
The Raptor Center clinic staff is seeking foster Screech Owl parents for a rehabilitated, brancher-age, baby screech owl. It will need the adults' protection, feeding, and teaching while it masters flight and learns to hunt. If you know of an active Screech Owl nest cavity, or have seen other you

Re: [mou-net] eBird Report

2011-05-20 Thread Terence Brashear
I did not see the bird reported, but it looks like a place that a wayward thrasher might hang out.  Lots of singing Catbird, Orioles, and Cardinals, but no Thrasher. This location is 5 minutes from my office so I ran over for 1/2 hour.  The only place you can legally park is a road (Orchard Hil

[mou-net] northern Parula

2011-05-20 Thread Victor Lewis
2 northern parulas were at WW nature center signing in th trees by the nature center bldg this AM. VIC 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] MRVAC meeting Thursday

2011-05-20 Thread Steve Weston
Special Presentation May 26 Open to the Public Food Security & the Environment: Will We Have to Choose Between Meat and a Healthy Planet? By Dr. Jonathan Foley, University of Minnesota Jon Foley is the Director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota, whe

Re: [mou-net] Northern Mockingbird - Duluth, St Louis Cty MN

2011-05-20 Thread Steve Weston
I remember participating in a compedative birding day in Duluth some ten years ago. Our bird of the day was a Mockingbird found in Sax-Zim. We thought we had a bird that no one else would find. No one else found that bird, but they found two other Mockingbirds in Duluth. Steve Weston on Qui

[mou-net] eBird Report

2011-05-20 Thread Ben Harste
I haven't seen it reported on MOU so I wanted to inform everyone that I read an eBird sighting (by somebody else) of a Curve-billed Thrasher at Bryant Lake Park in Eden Prairie. Now with eBird reports for Rare birds such as this they can be put on a checklist without confirmation, so it isn't for

[mou-net] Philadelphia Vireo/Goodhue co. and MN checklist

2011-05-20 Thread
Hi All--On the 18th, Erika and I photographed a Philadelphia Vireo in Goodhue Co. (near old mile post 76 along the Cannon River Bike Trail). It was in a mixed species flock, along with the previously reported Cerulean Warbler. The photo, along with a post on identifying Philadelphia and Warbling