[mou-net] Sherburne sightings - Wildlife Drive opening date

An eastern phoebe is singing outside our headquarters/office this morning.   Hooded merganser, northern pintail, wood duck, mallard, trumpeter swan in the river.  Great blue herons, killdeer,  are back as well as more sandhill cranes.  A visitor reported eastern bluebirds on CR 4, but I haven't

[mou-net] Belated Bagley Farm Report (long)

Here at Northern Flights Farm in Clearwater county, Friday March 29th, a Robin complained bitterly from the Secret Garden, the first migrant detected in my yard this Spring. It had every right to complain given the foot and a half of snow still on the ground. The first skein of northbound Canada

[mou-net] Greater White-fronted Goose - Lake Byllesby, Dakota County

It was a cold wind coming off the open water on the west end of Lake Byllesby this afternoon. With a scope I was able to find many waterfowl, three Tree Swallows and one Lesser Yellowlegs. I counted 38 Greater White-fronted Geese on a sand bar. -- KEVIN D. SMITH Dakota County Join or Leave

[mou-net] April birds

I was happy to see 3 female grosbeak on my feeder today, I had not seen any for over a week. We have a male cardinal which I have been seeing and hearing for about 2 weeks. This is actually a big deal for us since we normally do not have them here. I hear the Phoebe's. We have a northern

[mou-net] Wells Lake and Rice County birding

Wells Lake (Faribault) is continuing to open up. Gene Bauer and I checked it out mid-afternoon today and found a good variety of waterfowl, though none in huge numbers. Most abundant were Common Mergansers, Canvasbacks, and Ring-necks but there were also other species, most notably three

[mou-net] Live From Freeborn County

There are 60 to 70 bald eagles on Bear Lake, north of Emmons. Al Batt 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] River Bend Nature Center, Faribault, 4/3/13

An extended hike at River Bend provided good birding with the requisite exercise. Along with some of the usual year-round and winter residents, a Fox Sparrow was foraging under the center's feeders. We hope it had departed before a later visit by the female Cooper's Hawk, who came and perched