[mou] Sandhill cranes in Normanna Township, St. Louis Cty

2007-08-27 Thread Howard Weinberg
Hello Molly and List, On Sunday morning sometime beteen 0730 and 0930 i heard sandhill crane(s) calling. It sounds like i wasn't that far from your location -- on a logging road off of Fox Farm Rd and not all that far from Pequaywan (maybe a few miles? not sure). Although they were close at

[mou] Peregrines in Duluth

2007-06-01 Thread Howard Weinberg
It's well known that peregrine falcon's now nest on buildings and bridges around the country, as they do here in Duluth. For some reason though, I hadn't checked them out, maybe thinking it wasn't so special since it is increasingly a common site. I was wrong. This afternoon I had a few spare

[mou] Beetle tidbits

2006-10-31 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1994553848-1162307767=:42410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In refernce to woodpecker/beetles, here are some tidbits that i recall: One common group of bark beetles here belong to the "Ips" genus. The Pine Engraver (Ips pini) is one of the

[mou] Interesting Yardbirds (Two Harbors)

2006-10-30 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-188670480-1162218477=:47188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It was an interesting weekend for yardbirds. Black-backed Woodpeckers and Gray Jays were among the visitors (the jays have taken over the suet feeder and are just ripping through it), bu

[mou] Where are they going?

2006-01-27 Thread Howard Weinberg
please do so to me directly. Thank you, Howard Weinberg (hjw_for...@yahoo.com) - What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos --0-1930419638-1138378104=:96327 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer

[mou] GOWA survey

2005-05-27 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-780250349-1117236773=:90868 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If anyone is birding/travelling in the Duluth area (Duluth and then out as much as ~30 miles from the city), knows of places where Golden-winged Warblers are singing regulalrly and/or nesting, would you pass the locataion

[mou] Let the nesting season begin!

2005-05-22 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1754545319-1116771392=:95092 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ovenbirds and chestnut-sided warblers have begun this past week territorialy carving up the backyard woods in earnest, and i think veeries and common yellowthroats just now started this weekend. should be more species a

[mou] migrants save the day

2005-05-19 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1457101482-1116552866=:2639 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii When i got home from work tonight, after yet another cool rainy day, and sat out on the back porch, my spirits lifted when some colorful birds visited the yard including Blackburnian Warb., Tennessee W., Cape May W., Oven

[mou] yellow-rumped warbler, nesting pileated

2005-05-05 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-731774939-1115307419=:99532 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This probably is old hat to Duluthians, but this morning there were two Yellow-rumped Warblers singing in my yard before i left for work. My birding has been relegated to backyard stuff recently, and so this is the first

[mou] Regarding starving boreal owls

2005-01-12 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-114628026-1105541815=:761 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I just read the Mark Alt/Steve Wilson email about starving boreal owls. I would like to ask the list serve what perhaps is a dumb question. Would a Boreal Owl eat a strip of meat if it was left out or does the "prey" need

[mou] location for GGO visit part II

2004-11-30 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1311125619-1101822991=:40248 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ooops. i ommitted a location for my GGO posting. I live up by hawk ridge in Lakewood Township, Duluth. Howard __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best sp

[mou] A visiting GGO: part II

2004-11-30 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1728224222-1101821691=:67699 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii There was a Great Gray Owl at my house again this morning. It was a brief, but beautiful sighting. It was about 6:45 maybe and i was out letting the dogs run around. The sun had just started to think about rising, but

[mou] A visit by a Great Gray Owl

2004-11-26 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-807601964-1101483522=:58276 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I came home from a morning combination trip of hiking with the dogs, looking at several Great Gray Owls, and just enjoying the morning yesterday, when a Great Gray Owl flew to a snag right outside my back window, maybe 25

[mou] Great Gray Owl

2004-11-01 Thread Howard Weinberg
--0-1843440919-1099318627=:74569 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii A Great Gray Owl was seen "close-up" at Hawk Ridge yesterday. It was on the trails not too far from the main hawk watch area. Howard. - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the m