Re: [mou-net] woodcock?

2013-04-17 Thread Heather Ilse
My 11-yo son and I were tickled to spot a well-camouflaged American woodcock in our urban backyard rain garden a couple blocks north of Minnehaha Creek in the Ericsson neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Thanks to Mike Engh for help with identification! Photos through the window are here:

Re: [mou-net] woodcock?

2013-04-17 Thread Heather Ilse
My 11-yo son and I were tickled to spot a well-camouflaged American woodcock in our urban backyard rain garden a couple blocks north of Minnehaha Creek in the Ericsson neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Thanks to Mike Engh for help with identification! Photos through the window are here:

[mou-net] Minnehaha meanderings: Black-crowned Night Heron, etc.

2010-09-15 Thread Heather Ilse
Greetings. I am brand new both to birding and to this list, but my 9-yo son enthusiastically insists we contribute post-haste some of our recent observations along Minnehaha Creek, so I am doing just that without having had much of a chance to ground myself in the netiquette and scope of this