[mou-net] Complete Handbook of the Birds of the World (Lynx) For Sale

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Hurben
I have a mint condition, complete set of the HBW that I am looking to sell at a reasonable discount. Please email me if you are interested.  Thanks, -Michael Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

[mou-net] Connecticut warbler at Richardson Nature Center (Bloomington) today

2013-05-25 Thread Michael Hurben
I was surprised and pleased this morning around 7AM to find a singing male Connecticut just east of the nature center building. The bird was on either side, and occasionally on, the trail that runs N-S between the building and the pond. Happily the bird stayed in the area long enough for me to g

[mou-net] Eastern Phoebes impacted by snowy April in central MN?

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Hurben
very tough stretch for them (and the bluebirds, which also seem less numerous around here).  -Michael Hurben Hennepin Co. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

[mou-net] May 10-12 W. Bloomington: 75 species without getting in the car!

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Hurben
nt from other sites in central Minnesota, in that this weekend has been certified Yellow-Rumped Madness. At Richardson nature center at a small pond, there were some downed trees over the water that hosted so many Butterbutts that it looked like a beehive with huge blue-gray and yellow bees!  -Good bir

Re: [mou-net] Carver County Yellow-throated Warbler

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hurben
Big thanks to John Cyrus for the heads-up and help locating this bird. My wife and I arrived around 3pm to find a half-dozen others in the area, and the news that we missed the bird by 10 minutes. We waited him out and all of us in the group saw him briefly around 4:30. My wife and I stayed on,

[mou-net] Conflicting field marks on Shrike, and birds at Hyland Lake (Henn. Co)

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Hurben
This AM I birded the Hyland Lake area between the north shore of the lake up to the Osprey tower. I observed a Shrike that I'm calling a Loggerhead on eBird, but it is still bugging me a little. I wanted to call this a Northern at one point. I observed the bird in good light at a distance of ab

Re: [mou-net] Duluth Area Owls

2013-02-17 Thread Michael Hurben
Great to hear, Matt! We were also able to get the two lifers that we specifically targeted for this trip: Boreal Owl (Sat, North Shore) and Hoary Redpoll (Sun, Sax-Zim). The Boreal did not come easily at all. We left the Cities at 4AM and went directly to Stoney Point, where we found a Great Gr