[mou-net] Minnesota River Valley

2012-03-29 Thread Janice Dunlap
Driving up Flying Cloud Drive (old 212) between Hwy 101 in Chanhassen and Pioneer Trail (Eden Prairie), we noticed today that the Minnesota River is incredibly low, revealing spacious mudflats filled with shorebirds. I couldn't take the time to stop and look, but it's unusual to see so much mud

[mou-net] F.Y.I.

2012-03-29 Thread Bruce Baer
All things being equal and weather permitting, the core unit of Louisville Swamp will be burned on Friday. Sharp-shinned Hawk Y-r Warbler Purple Finch R-c Kinglet Bruce Baer Bloomington, MN Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.ed

[mou-net] Northern Saw-whet Owl Chisago County

2012-03-29 Thread Stenseng, Rubin J.
I found a Northern Saw-whet Owl today in the woods by our home along the St. Croix River. If you look at the photo, there is an unidentified food item on the tree branch in front of the bird. We had a saw-whet owl for the Christmas Bird Count, about 2-3 miles from the bird today. Not sure if

[mou-net] Carver County

2012-03-29 Thread John Cyrus
For the most part birds this morning were pretty typical for an early spring day. The most unusual bird of the day was a Red-shouldered Hawk near the shore of Lake Waconia. Other arrivals today included 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 2 Hermit Thrush, 1 Vesper Sparrow at Rapids Lake MVNWR, and a Comm

[mou-net] Peregrine falcons

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas P. Malone
At 1030 this morning two Peregrine falcons were circling the Century Link building in downtown Mpls in what appeared to be some kind of pairing flight. Thomas P. Malone Attorney at Law Barna Guzy & Steffen Minneapolis Minnesota tmal...@bgs.com (Via BlackBerry)

[mou-net] National Wind Map

2012-03-29 Thread Brian Wisconsin
I'm wondering if this rather cool animation of wind direction and speed in the U.S. has any application in migratory prediction. http://hint.fm/wind/ Currently there seems to be rather helpful (from a northbound migrating birds point of view) northerly wind flow from Texas. Something to think a

[mou-net] Ideas solicited

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Holtz
Late yesterday afternoon, at the Wargo Nature Center in Anoka County, I observed a bird which puzzles me. It was a small ( I estimated it at no more than five inches), mostly grayish bird with a dull, white supercilium and a faint hint of yellow on its flanks. It had two wings bars with one of them