Re: [mou-net] Hummingbird numbers/Monarchs

2024-07-26 Thread Nina Hale
and bumblebees. I'm glad to hear about so many people planting milkweed. Up the upside, I am swamped with fledgling goldfinches. :D Nina Nina Hale (she/her/hers) 612-805-2071 I live on Dakota and Anishinaabe land On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:44 PM linda whyte < 004e7b0e779a-dmarc-r

[mou-net] Audubon Photo Awards

2023-06-21 Thread Nina Hale
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Re: [mou-net] Anybody seen Yellow headed blackbirds at 180th St. Marsh?

2022-05-28 Thread Nina Hale
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Re: [mou-net] Hooded mergansers and where did RWB's go

2022-04-01 Thread Nina Hale
I saw at least 100 RWBB in kenwood park two days ago *Personal email address of* Nina Hale m: 612-805-2071 On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:21 AM Keith Carlson wrote: > Saw a flock of about 30 hooded mergansers with males crowns in full display > on the open water on what I believe is

Re: [mou-net] First Flocks of Common Goldeneyes, Upper MN River Valley

2022-03-04 Thread Nina Hale
pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > > > > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > &

Re: [mou-net] Snowy Owls at MSP

2021-12-27 Thread Nina Hale
Thank you! I was there but only saw two. Even more specifically for people, they were FAR off, viewable from the parking looking towards the terminal. Two were against the blinking lights next to the runway 6 sign. One flew a few hundred yards down the runway and stayed next to that runway for at

Re: [mou-net] Dakota Cnty Buff-breasted Sandpipers

2021-08-15 Thread Nina Hale
Also a few at Armstrong Wetland Restoration *Personal email address of* Nina Hale m: 612-805-2071 On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:59 AM Rick Gibson wrote: > Hi All - > > 11 - 12 Buff-breasted Sandpipers (with a handful of Killdeer) in the usual > Jirik Sod Farm fields. Today, 12noo

[mou-net] Gryfalcon at Two Fishhouse bay?

2021-08-11 Thread Nina Hale
A friend in Grand Portage says a Gryfalcon has been hanging around there all summer. Does anyone live around there who can confirm this? N Nina Hale Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During

[mou-net] Injured Sandhill crane

2021-06-02 Thread Nina Hale
Ahh, I don't quite know what to do here. And there seems to be a obviously injured sandhill crane along this spot where I dropped the pin. This is near whitetail woods. I thought it was on a nest and then I likely disturbed it, I've driven away, it's now getting attacked by a Red-Winged Blackbird

[mou-net] Harris's Sparrow - Uptown Yard

2021-05-09 Thread Nina Hale
I've been trying to get a Harris's Sparrow for a couple of years and one has been in my yard all day. If this is also a big deal for you, info is here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S87630765 *Nina* Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:

Re: [mou-net] Bird Locator

2021-03-22 Thread Nina Hale
This is super cool! thank you *Personal email address of* Nina Hale m: 612-805-2071 On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:05 AM Tami Vogel wrote: > Thought I'd share this amazing reference tool created by a birder in North > Carolina, Michael Fogleman. It works w/any zip code. Just a

[mou-net] Branch cutting at Tamarack

2021-03-10 Thread Nina Hale
*Personal email address of* Nina Hale m: 612-805-2071 Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird

Re: [mou-net] Snowy Owls

2021-02-07 Thread Nina Hale
I believe they moved the mpls/st paul airport snowy awhile ago. There is a very reliable snowy in rice county close to Nerstrand big woods park. I've seen it each of 5 times I've been. BUT it is almost always 300-400 yards into a field (I measured in google maps!). That is, under you are Gerald

[mou-net] Follow up on house sparrows

2020-11-15 Thread Nina Hale
Hi everyone, I really appreciate the advice and feedback I've received, as well as the offers to help directly. I think I responded to everyone but if I did not, my apologies; I meant to. And I may have responded to some of you more than once. :) Here is a compendium of advice that I thought I

[mou-net] House sparrows

2020-11-14 Thread Nina Hale
I live in the middle of Uptown Minneapolis and the HOSP population at my feeders is getting almost untenable. I'll have up to 30 aggressive sparrows at a time pushing out the native birds. I'm considering trapping methods but can't handle the various forms of humanely euthanizing them myself. I

[mou-net] Sherburne wildlife drive?

2020-10-24 Thread Nina Hale
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Re: [mou-net] Bird sightings

2020-08-17 Thread Nina Hale
Nina personal email account of: Nina Hale ​612-805-2071 On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 6:29 PM Alex wrote: > There are two very popular bird ID groups on Facebook: What’s this Bird? > run by the ABA and The Bird Identification Group of the World run by > community members. The chief difference

Re: [mou-net] Chimney Switts in St Paul

2020-08-03 Thread Nina Hale
over the neighborhood. Though this year The Nighthawks don't seem as plentiful. I thought because there may be plus large parking lot lights due to closed businesses. Nina personal email account of: Nina Hale ​612-805-2071 On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 9:56 PM Karlyn Eckman < 13aad297dffa-dm