[mou-net] Birds and Beers meeting at Black Forest Inn, Oct 28, 6 pm

2013-10-21 Thread Curt Rawn
Birds and Beers will be meeting at the Black Forest Innhttp://www.blackforestinnmpls.com/ on Oct 28th at 6 pm in Mpls. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birders–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask

Re: [mou-net] Ross's Goose - Hopkins

2013-10-21 Thread Ben Harste
The Ross's Goose is currently feeding with a loose group of about 7 Canada Geese. I am currently watching it from 7th St S west of 11th Ave S on a grassy slope south of 7th St. This is in Hopkins, Hennepin County, MN. It is quite a distance from the road right now on private property, the

[mou-net] Cottonwood and Jackson Co's, Oct 18-19-20

2013-10-21 Thread Kim R Eckert
There were several interesting sightings during the October 18-19-20 Minn Birding Weekend in Cottonwood and Jackson Co's (and en route to and from the MBW). As already reported to mou-net, we had a Mute Swan Oct 17 in Nicollet Co, 4 mi N of Nicollet (first seen N of here along Hwy 22 in Sibley

[mou-net] Ross's Goose - Hopkins, Hennepin County

2013-10-21 Thread Ben Harste
The Ross's Goose is currently feeding with a loose group of about 7 Canada Geese. I am currently watching it from 7th St S west of 11th Ave S on a grassy slope south of 7th St. This is in Hopkins, Hennepin County, MN. It is quite a distance from the road right now on private property, the

[mou-net] Lackluster fall migration?

2013-10-21 Thread Betsy Beneke
Does anyone else think that fall migration has been un-exciting?  Generally speaking?  Did we HAVE a warbler migration?  Other than early posts from along Lake Superior, I don't remember hearing much from other areas.  I certainly didn't have anything to report from along the Mississippi River,

Re: [mou-net] Lackluster fall migration?

2013-10-21 Thread Holly Myhre-Anton
I am in Andover, MN and I agree! I have seen very little migratory birds this year! Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:38:42 -0700 From: birderbe...@yahoo.com Subject: [mou-net] Lackluster fall migration? To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Does anyone else think that fall migration has been un-exciting?

Re: [mou-net] Lackluster fall migration?

2013-10-21 Thread douglas chapman
The last couple years we have had very poor migrations here in Eastern SD. We could only turn green with envy as we read of all the sightings in Minnesota. This fall has been wonderful here. Evidently the waves came a few miles further west this fall. Doug douglas chapman

Re: [mou-net] Lackluster fall migration?

2013-10-21 Thread John Cyrus
I consider this fall's migration to be steady and consistent in Carver County. There were not a lot of exceptionally high count warbler days(in terms of numbers of particular species), but over the course of the fall migration total counts of species ended up to be fairly normal to above

Re: [mou-net] Lackluster migration

2013-10-21 Thread linda whyte
I'm not in a strong position to concur, because I've been far less able to hit the trail than in other years, but it does seem that the birds spread out over the landscape more, and offered fewer incidents of concentrated fall-outs. It might also be that we're more inclined to share reports when