[mou-net] Lac Qui Parle County Salt Lake birding

2014-08-04 Thread Ken Larson Mary Lou Frank
Sunday morning I birded around Salt Lake in western LQP County. A few shore birds were present as the dryer weather of late has increased the width of the shoreline mud flats. Most interesting besides the number of Wilson's Phalarope's and the Black Tern's acrobatic flying was the Eared Grebes n

[mou-net] Lac Qui Parle Blue Grosbeaks

2014-08-04 Thread Ken Larson Mary Lou Frank
On Saturday around 11 AM I reported finding a pair of Blue Grosbeaks in SW LQP County. Both birds flew west about 200 feet where the Male perched on the upper branch of a brush pile with the female just below. In good light I got a great look at both of them, the male in beautiful adult plumage.

[mou-net] Summer Seasonal Reports

2014-08-04 Thread Paul Budde
The summer season (6/1 - 7/31) has ended. If you will be submitting a seasonal report of bird observations for inclusion in the summer summary to be published in The Loon, please do so now. We encourage submissions using the MOU website (http://moumn.org/ ). Look under "Seaso

[mou-net] Wood Stork - Washington County

2014-08-04 Thread Pete Makousky
Wood Stork present around 7:15 pm. Sky the BirdMan Anoka, MN 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] delayed swift-nesting?

2014-08-04 Thread linda whyte
Both chimneys observed (in St. Paul, the former St. James School, and Randolph Heights Elementary) seemed to still be hosting breeding pairs. At both locations, small flocks had been hunting above, but mostly dispersed at sunset. Only 6 entered St. James, as far as I could tell. Only 2 entered Ra

Re: [mou-net] Wood Stork

2014-08-04 Thread Erik Collins
Wood Stork was present at 9:30 a.m. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:45 AM, MOU admin wrote: > > (Posted by anonymous <> via moumn.org) > > If anyone knows if the wood stork is still around in Washington County, could > they > let me know? I would like to head there after work. Tha

Re: [mou-net] Swift count, Hennepin county or Ramsey

2014-08-04 Thread Curt Rawn
I counted at DeLaSalle high school on Nicollet Island. I had one bird go in, with possibly a second, too. Is this the result of a late cold spring, birds are still on the nest? Curt Rawn On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Tony Lau wrote: > I ended up with 390 Swifts at St. John the Baptist Chur

[mou-net] Wood Stork

2014-08-04 Thread MOU admin
(Posted by anonymous <> via moumn.org) If anyone knows if the wood stork is still around in Washington County, could they let me know? I would like to head there after work. Thanks! Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives