[mou-net] Whitetail Woods, Dakota County

2015-04-12 Thread Elizabeth Tiller
Whitetail Woods County Park. Nothing earthshattering but a lovely little flock of ruby-crowned and golden-crowned kinglets in the woods by EMpire Lake (about a dozen). One Ruby singing even! A trumpeter swan on the lake and a Great Egret. A few yellow-rumps here and there and a phoebe. Swung

[mou-net] FOY eastern phoebe

2015-04-12 Thread Jean Olsen
FOY phoebe was heard yesterday in the tree tops in our yard in Cloverdale, Pine County. Some warblers were also heard yesterday too, but I could not see them to identify which ones they were. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:

[mou-net] About the Metro - Tufted Titmouse at Quigley Lake

2015-04-12 Thread Steve Weston
I did have a new yard bird today: a Tufted Titmouse. That is probably the first new yard bird in the last couple of years! I believe that I have only found it once before in Dakota County. I got back about an hour and a half ago from my frog toad survey route. I go out three times each year to

[mou-net] Stearns Co Sat / Sherburne NWR Sun

2015-04-12 Thread Betsy Beneke
I birded along the west and north borders of Stearns County yesterday, and have to say it was a pretty quiet day. The large numbers of waterfowl in the area a week ago seemed to be gone. At Paynesville, the water treatment ponds were nearly devoid of birds - just a few pairs of geese, mallards

[mou-net] robotic raptors for bird control

2015-04-12 Thread Gordon Andersson
Passing on this link from last August. You might have seen it in older posting. A Dutch co. has developed a robot Peregrine and a robot Bald Eagle and are testing at landfills. Possible appl'n to airports and others. Videos show the robots in flight-- good enough to fool the gulls and probably

[mou-net] Black-crowned night heron

2015-04-12 Thread Robert Bergad
They're back for another season along Minnehaha Creek at 28th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Look in the grove of spruce trees on the northwest corner of the creek and street intersection. Sent from my iPad Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:

[mou-net] Lac qui Parle County Tree Swallows

2015-04-12 Thread Ken Larson Mary Lou Frank
3 PM, at least 27 Tree Swallows are flying over our pasture at Prairie Marsh Farm. Ken Larson Sent from my iPhone Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html