[mou-net] Killer cardinals?

Came across an interesting scene in the neighbors driveway yesterday. A male cardinal that had just expired, small feathers scattered in the immediate area, he had a beak full of breast feathers still in his mouth. The posture and snow evidence was such as to indicate he was alone and still so

Re: [mou-net] Killer cardinals?

Recently I saw two chickadees going at it, beak and claw, around my patio. They landed on the concrete and rolled around till one flew off. The other sat on the ground with a feather in its beak for a few seconds and then took off. I have never seen chickadees fight like that. I have had sever

[mou-net] Boreal Owls

Two Boreal Owls have been reported in Sax Zim Bog. Chris West found a Boreal Owl along Arkola Rd a mile east of Owl Ave. Then a report came in with another owl on the Cranberry Rd about 200 yards north of Sax Rd on east side of road. I was released from the hospital and home resting and I am doi

[mou-net] MBW schedule update

Just a brief posting here to mention that the MBWbirds website (http://mbwbirds.com) was updated today, that the 2012-13 MBW season has now been completed, and the registration status for all the Minnesota Birding Weekends and Weeks of the March 2013 - February 2014 season continues to be updat

[mou-net] Sax Zim Boreal Owls (2), Northern Hawk Owl; Duluth Great Gray Owl today

Thanks to the camaraderie of birders we were able to see not one but TWO BOREAL OWLS at Sax Zim. Northern Hawk Owl was 1 mile N of Sax Rd. on Cr 7. Other expected but very enjoyable birds included Ruffed Grouse, Pine Grosbeak, Northern Shrike, Gray Jay, and others. On the way back to Duluth we had

[mou-net] sax-zim today

We spent the day birding Sax-zim bog today and found the following species: Boreal Owl (the bird on Cranberry Lane, about 1/4 mile north of Sax Rd on the east side - many thanks to Peter Kondrashov for texting us the location!) Northern Shrike (On Hwy 133, just west of CR 7) Black-billed Magpie (

[mou-net] Owls - Dakota Co.

Went owling tonight with Kevin & Dwight Smith. It was cold, but still. Most of the locations we checked were noisy with road noise bothersome and at times interfering with soft responses. We had three or four different species: Great Horned, Screech, Long-eared (probable) and Saw-whet. We had s