[mou-net] Mille Lacs

Fox Song Sparrows have arrived in southern Mille Lacs County (Kunkel WMA). Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Sent from my iPhone 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] Laake Waconia

The morning on Lake Waconia off Hwy 10 and just after the Turn onto Hwy 30 there's a dirt road heading E to a small trailer park. There's open water there and I saw Trumpeter Swans, rafts of Greater Scaup, Mallards and rafts of Northern Shovelers. Thought I saw a couple of Redheads too but the

[mou-net] RWBB

There are numerous red wings singing in the large wetland in front of my Minnetonka home this morning. Ahhh, spring... Thomas P. Malone Attorney at Law Barna Guzy Steffen Minneapolis Minnesota tmal...@bgs.com (Via BlackBerry)

[mou-net] Hoary/Common Redpoll

To those interested in such things. I just posted an image of a side by side Hoary and Common Redpoll on the showcase section of MOU. Just interesting to compare the two when they are in the same frame. Regards, Shawn Zierman. Join or Leave mou-net:

[mou-net] Spring Owl Monitoring--Volunteers Needed

Greetings Minnesota Birders, Spring is on its way! Before things get too busy with spring migration, though, the Western Great Lakes Spring Owl Monitoring Project (_http://www.hawkridge.org/research/springowl.html_ (http://www.hawkridge.org/research/springowl.html) ) sends volunteers

Re: [mou-net] More GWF Geese - Washington Co

We were not able to find any of the Greater White-fronted Geese at the pond on Pioneer Drive, but a short distance away we found 30 in a flooded field. They are just west of Radio Drive, on the south side of Bailey Road. We parked in the parking lot of Salem Lutheran Church. We saw them at

[mou-net] Wright County - no luck with GWF Geese

Judy Chucker and I spent the morning looking for the GWF Geese in Wright County at the locations mentioned. No luck. We saw many Tr Swans, Bald Eagles, Shovelers, Ring-necked ducks, E Bluebirds, RWBB's, a Kestral and the usual resident birds. We did have a single Sandhill Crane fly over. The

[mou-net] Bald and Golden Eagles, Townsend's Solitaire, American Kestrels - Polk Co

I spotted a Golden Eagle on US 75 on the north side of Argyle MN yesterday and a my neighbor (2 miles east of the Audubon Center), Faith Rud counted 40+ Bald Eagles overhead and in trees yesterday afternoon. This morning I spotted more than a dozen Bald Eagles flying over the Audubon Center. The

[mou-net] Merlins, St. Paul

This evening there were two Merlins calling and flying just west of the intersection of Hamline and Jefferson Avenues. This is just two blocks west of where a couple of Merlins were hanging out for a short period last summer, in some of the neighborhood conifers. If anyone else happens to spot

[mou-net] Raptors Moving in Proctor, SE St. Louis Co.

I took a couple of my students on a mid day walk around the Proctor, Minnesota secondary school campus in extreme southeastern St. Louis County between 12:40 and 1:20 CST, and we were treated to 16 migrant Bald Eagles, an early Turkey Vulture (1:12 p.m.), and an adult  Red-tailed Hawk during

[mou-net] Baird's Sandpiper, Brown County

Hi, birders: Late this afternoon there was a single (and early) Baird's Sandpiper at the Sleepy Eye WTP's. It was foraging on a chunk of ice/matted vegetation along the shoreline. Other than the Baird's Sandpiper, there wasn't much else birdwise. I can't help but think that this unseasonably