Hello birders,
Out and about birding the metro with Diane today yielded some early winter
birds and late fall migrants:
*Snow Buntings* - 1 in Ramsey (Red Rock Road), 5 in Washington (100th. St)
and 15 in Dakota County (180th st. Marsh).
Wood Lake Nature Center had:
*Song sparrow* - 1 near fee
Here is a video of the amazing coordination and movement of 1000's of
starlings in the evening. You can hear the birds wings over the music at
times. It is only 2:00 min and worthwhile. The reaction of the two women
is so appropriate.
P.S.. Long url's like this will not open by clickin
Among the 775 gulls roosting on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis this evening
were 2 Thayer's Gulls - a handsome first-cycle bird and a rather
motley-looking adult.
Paul
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This morning I had my first siting of a flock of snow buntings --
about 30 -- on Kanabec Co. Rd. 20 just 1 mile south of Co. Rd. 3.
Earlier this week a friend in Mora (new birder) had a northern shrike
in his backyard. He photographed it from his backyard blind and I
confirmed it as a northern
Between Hwy 77 and the Observation Platform just west of the Parking Lot were
14 species of waterfowl Sun am. I added one more - Hooded Merganser, in the
pond between Black Dog Rd and 77. I couldn't find a duck on Black Dog Lake (W.)
but lots of gulls are building up around the power plant and I
I was able to view the mallard/blackduck cross a little better ie. neither the
bird or I were moving. It is certainly a hybrid. May be backcrossed with
mallard. As it swam I could see no white on the secondaries, however the wings
were folded. The wings had some silvery color to them on top
Saw a flock of mallards in flight along the city beach today. One bird was
noticably larger and darker than the rest. Two hours later I saw the flock
feeding near the boat access. The large dark individual had a yellow bill and
partially green head. Body was not gray like a male mallard, but
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 23:54:01 -0500, Steve Weston
wrote:
>Actually the largest concentration of Red-headed Woodpeckers in the
>state is at Cedar Creek Natural History Area in northern Anoka County.
Thank you, I'll head there tomorrow - just one question, how do I get there? I
did
see that it
Here is a reminder for prospective contributors of
articles and photographs to the January/February 2012 issue of
MOU's Minnesota Birding newsletter. The upcoming deadline: November 20,
2011.
Please send articles for consideration to:
newslet...@moumn.org
Keep sending those wonderful photographs
Also be aware that each time you do give a specific location, you are risking
setting up a circus-like environment, a la that which occured at the two Long
Eared Owl site in Maryland a few years ago.
At first only one birder knew the exact site, and if you wanted to see the
birds, you'd contact
Erika and I have visited Big Woods State Park three times in October and
early November and were disappointed not to find Red-headed Woodpeckers.
dan
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, linda whyte wrote:
> Laura Coble and I visited Nerstrand last month, without finding them
> in the usual places,
Laura Coble and I visited Nerstrand last month, without finding them
in the usual places, around the visitors' center, parking lot, and
campground; neither did we find them on our hike along trails to the
north of there.
However, they may well have been off gathering mast from the oaks on
the sout
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