[mou] Wood Lake (Richfield) -- Mourning Warbler

Y'all, Among many other wonderful birds, I saw a mourning warbler on Sunday 05/15 at Wood Lake. It was in the southwestern-most corner, near I-35W. This is the exact place that I saw a mourning warbler last year. Some very tame deer were only 10-20 feet away while I searched. Jonathan Fergu

[mou] Golf Practice Facility proposed for Veterans Park, Richfield (Hennepin Co.)

>From the March 17, Richfield edition of the Sun-Current newspaper: http://www.mnsun.com/archive.asp?display=story2&year=2005&storyID=154338 Jonathan Ferguson Minneapolis, MN

[mou] Wilson's Snipe? RQD? >> Common vs. Wilson's Snipe?

Sorry, Andy...no answer, but I have similar question for someone/everyone. My Nat'l Geo Birds 3rd ed. mentions the "Common Snipe" but no Wilson's. The Sibley Eastern mentions the "Wilson's Snipe", as does the MOU MN birds checklist, but no Common. The Latin species names are different (accord

[mou] Blackbirds

We saw at least two on Sunday at Old Cedar Avenue Bridge while looking for the Carolina Wren. Jonathan Ferguson >From: bobholtz1...@aol.com >To: mou-...@cbs.umn.edu >Subject: [mou] Blackbirds >Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:42:34 EST > >Red-winged Blackbirds have reached Roseville. I observed two male

[mou] Need help IDing gyrfalcon/other bird in Dakota Co. near Hastings

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_4b87_52f0_1597 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Y'all, Has anyone seen the recent gyrfalcon in flight overhead? I'm only seeing photos of it in a sitting position. I saw a bird fly over me (relatively high) near the jun