[mou-net] Birds at Sherburne NWR

2014-04-10 Thread Betsy Beneke
Species seen at Sherburne NWR the last couple of days: Green Blue-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Redhead Canvasback Lesser Scaup Gadwall Hooded Merganser Wood Duck Pied-billed Grebe Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Great Blue Heron Great Egret Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk

Re: [mou-net] W-W Scoter continues (Hennepin Co.)

2014-04-10 Thread Curt Rawn
The White-winged Scoter was still in this same area at 11 am. I parked in Boom Island park and walked south to the Nicollet Island area. I was often 12 feet from the bird as it searched for food and surfaced close to the bank. Curt Rawn On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Alyssa DeRubeis

Re: [mou-net] W-W Scoter continues (Hennepin Co.)

2014-04-10 Thread Rebecca Field
The consensus at Audubon Minnesota is that it is a 1st spring female White-winged Scoter. Rebecca Field On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Curt Rawn catda...@gmail.com wrote: The White-winged Scoter was still in this same area at 11 am. I parked in Boom Island park and walked south to the

[mou-net] Becker County Blind Date

2014-04-10 Thread Cleone Stewart
Ready for a blind date? Greater Prairie Chickens are booming on leks in Becker County, MN. Get a close up view of the prairie birds during the Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds May 15-18. Nearly 200 species are recorded annually during field trips to see birds of the prairies, forests and shorebirds

[mou-net] Carver County

2014-04-10 Thread John Cyrus
Spring has made its way to Carver County, and with it there have been many arrivals to the area over the past several days. Along with birds, frogs have been out for a few days, and the first Mourning Cloak was out today. Greater White-fronted Goose numbers have been good this spring(at

[mou-net] W.W. scoter still at Boom Island

2014-04-10 Thread Ron Taube
Hi My thanks to those who posted this bird. I’d never seen one before. We saw it just before noon downstream from the Plymouth bridge hanging around the channel. She would struggle against the wind drifting towards the channel then fly upstream a couple of hundred feet then drift back

[mou-net] Remember the Kasota Prairie?

2014-04-10 Thread Chad Heins
I regret to inform all of you that a significant portion Hey birders, I regret to inform all of you that a significant portion of the area I call the Kasota Prairie in southwestern Le Sueur County has been lost to development.   The beautiful pasture on the south side of 468th St/TR140 west of

[mou-net] [mou-rba] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, April 10, 2014

2014-04-10 Thread Jeanie Joppru
-RBA *Minnesota *Detroit Lakes *April 10, 2014 *MNDL1404.10 -Birds mentioned Greater White-fronted Goose Canada Goose Tundra Swan Mallard Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Greater Prairie-Chicken American White Pelican Great Blue