[mou-net] Birding about the Metro

2012-04-12 Thread Steve Weston
On Tuesday evening I wandered into my backyard to fill a feeder. I avoid the backyard in the mornings because of all the wood ducks and mergansers around. But, when I passed one of my wood duck houses, I flushed a hen on the eggs. She sounded like a merganser. Since she was gone, I looked in a

[mou-net] MRVAC - Wright County Birding Day - Field Trip Report - April 12, 2012

2012-04-12 Thread CRAIG MANDEL
April 12, 2012 Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter Wright County Birding Day Field Trip Report Enjoyed a beautiful day of birding in Wright county today. Over all migration was slow, but we did manage to turn up some interesting species. Here are some of the locations that we spent time

[mou-net] migrants

2012-04-12 Thread
Hi All-- Erika and I banded a Yellow-beliied Sapsucker today as it attempted to drink from our water feature. Apparently the literature maintains that sapsuckers get most of their water from their sap wells. A photo of the bird, a rather handsome male, is posted on my blog: http://dantallmansbir

[mou-net] [mou-rba] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, April 12, 2012

2012-04-12 Thread Jeanie Joppru
-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *April 12, 2012 *MNDL1204.12 -Birds mentioned Snow Goose Ross's Goose Trumpeter Swan Common Merganser Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Common Loon Red-necked Grebe American White Pelican American Bittern Great Egret Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sandh

[mou-net] Becker Co. new arrivals

2012-04-12 Thread Steve Midthune
Was at Tamarac NWR doing BBA work and saw: yellow-rumped warbler, purple finch, yellow-bellied sapsucker, lots of hermit thrushes and fox sparrows. There were lots of ruffed grouse drumming and on the road to Tamarac Lake I came upon a pair of grouse with the male on the ground in full display and

[mou-net] [mou-rba] MOU RBA 12 April 2012

2012-04-12 Thread Anthony Hertzel
-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *April 12, 2012 *MNST1204.12 -Birds mentioned Brown Pelican American Bittern Prairie Falcon Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Brown Thrasher American Pipit Smith's Longspur Louisiana Waterthrush Nashville Warbler Lark Sparrow -Transcript