[mou-net] Leucistic Canada Goose and Drawdown - Cedar Lake, Stearns County

2015-11-09 Thread Borash, Peter (DNR)
Cedar Lake is a shallow lake 3.5 miles northeast of Sauk Centre, MN that has been a statutory Game Refuge to protect waterfowl since 1929, but just last spring was designated as Minnesota's 49th Wildlife Management Lake. As such, management has begun to protect and improve water quality and vege

[mou-net] North Shore weekend summary

2015-11-09 Thread Kim R Eckert
Besides the White-eyed Vireo that the Minn Birding Weekends (MBW) group found Sunday morning in Grand Marais and reported to mou-net (see below), we had several other species of note along the North Shore between Duluth and the Grand Marais area this past weekend, Nov 7-8: - Snow Goose: immatur

[mou-net] Northern Mockingbird, Two Harbors-- Lake Co. Saturday Nov 07

2015-11-09 Thread Gordon Andersson
There was a NOMO in Two Harbors seen about 1500 hrs near the Muncipal Water Treatment Plant. I drove Southwest from Burlington Bay on the lake road and saw the bird on the grass left of the big yellow sign on the corner with South St. He was about 40-50 ft away. I stopped in the street and s/he

[mou-net] Five-year-old banded American Goldfinch

2015-11-09 Thread
Near Northfield, Rice Co., this morning John Holden and I retrapped an American Goldfinch we banded on 1 June 2012. This male was a second-year bird when banded. Thus the goldfinch is now in its fifth year. The oldest banded American Goldfinch was at least 10 years, 9 months old ( https://www.pwrc

[mou-net] Becker Co. Long-tailed Duck

2015-11-09 Thread Steve Midthune
The duck (a beautiful adult male) was still in the same slough as reported by Josh Wallestad yesterday. Take CR 5 south from Lake Park about 3.8 miles. Turn right on Stakke Lake Rd and drive past the lake. At the southern end of the lake the road turns downhill to the right. At the bottom of the hi