[mou-net] [mou-rba] Lake Harriet Today

Hi Upon the advise of a couple of birders that I know I went to Lake Harriet looking for Red Breasted Mergansers. It’s one of my favorite migrants. I came in on the west side and stopped near the north west corner of the lake and found two groups of waterfowl with fifty or more birds in each

Re: [mou-net] Redpolls with orange feathers

Xanthochroism is where normal red pigments replaced by yellow. This is also the cause of yellow cardinals At the Sax-Zim Bog Welcome Center last winter we had one of these xanthochroistic redpolls ...or should I say Yellowpoll Sent from my iPhone On Apr 9, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Earl Orf

[mou-net] North American Breeding Bird Survey needs you!

[ I'm forwarding this message on behalf of Katie Koch, Midwest Coordinated Bird Monitoring Partnership] Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer Southern Regional Nongame Wildlife Specialist- DNR Subject: Calling all Midwest birders - the North American Breeding Bird Survey needs you! Each spring over 2500

Re: [mou-net] [Mnbird] Interesting vulture activity--Plymouth MN

Jays will also attack seals and wiper blades. My best photo os the range-restricted Tufted Jay in Mexico is at my windshield wipers early one morning. Doug Chapman Sioux Falls SD Douglas Chapman, Editor SDOU Bird Notes Sioux Falls, SD sfbirdc...@sio.midco.net Come to the SDOU 66th Spring

[mou-net] Loggerhead Shrike Anoka Co

(Posted by Mark Junghans markjungh...@aol.com via moumn.org) Loggerhead Shrike hunting the open field at Itasca Lake in the city of Ramsey. Park in the lot at 156th Lane and Okapi Street and walk on the blacktop path to the left, or south, towards the lake. The shrike was on both sides of the

[mou-net] bird flu

(Posted by anonymous via moumn.org) We had a huge turkey die on our front lawn for no apparent reason. Do you have any info on bird flu in wild turkeys? Shirley lind Rochester, mn Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:

[mou-net] PBS Nature

Wonderful show except the end where the narrator says deep in our primate past we too once lived in trees. I have to say that is shockingly incorrect. And very unbirdy. Good birding to all today and thankful for creation. Join or Leave mou-net:

[mou-net] Redpolls with orange feathers

When I closely examined some Redpoll photos that I took this spring, I found some with orange or yellow feathers on the top of the head. I don't remember seeing this before. I did some internet searching and found some photos and references to orange feathers but no explanation for it. Does

[mou-net] Locke (Anoka County Park)

FOY Yellow-rumped Warbler. 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] Sandhill Crane sighting North of Duluth

This morning I stepped outside and heard Sandhill Cranes calling. I then saw one fly by. Spring will be here soon!Molly ThompsonNormanna Twp (North of Duluth) ___ Mnbird mailing list mnb...@lists.mnbird.net