[mou-net] Tundra Swans still on Mississippi s. of Brownsville

2020-11-30 Thread Paul Schlick
was decorated with masses of brilliant white lights. I hadn't driven that stretch during prime swan season, and maybe that many are there every year, but I had never seen so many swans. Pretty awesome sight. Paul Schlick Maple Grove, MN Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-b

[mou-net] The First Chimney Swift Tower

2020-08-04 Thread Paul Schlick
hat tower, too. There is much more to Sherman's pioneering story. I wrote a short article about her in 2015 that you can read on page 3 of this pdf: https://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/ahl/FAHL-Newsv20-1.pdf . Paul Schlick Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net A

[mou-net] Juncos are back

2016-09-28 Thread Paul Schlick
Just spotted the first junco of autumn in my Maple Grove yard. 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] EUCD name correction

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Schlick
My recent post should of course have named EUCD as Eurasian Collared-Dove and not European. I’m not sure if I was the victim of an unnoticed auto-correction or whether it could possibly have anything to do with posting after an evening of taste-testing single-malt scotches with the neighbor. I m

[mou-net] EUCD in Maple Grove

2016-03-15 Thread Paul Schlick
There were two European Collared-Doves in my yard this afternoon (March 15), on the east side of Fish Lake toward the north end. They walked around the yard for awhile, then perched in a tree and later flew across the street and out of sight. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi

[mou-net] GCKIs in Maple Grove

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Schlick
Two vocal Golden-crowned Kinglets hanging around my Maple Grove yard this afternoon. 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] Centennial month for CHSW towers

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Schlick
For those interested in birding history, April marks the 100th anniversary of the first chimney swift nesting tower, designed by Althea Sherman (1853- 1943) and erected in April 1915 on her farm near the northeast Iowa hamlet of National. She became the first person to observe and report the com

[mou-net] Whitney Eastman Archives open house, Feb. 13

2010-01-31 Thread Paul Schlick
(This is a repeat of a previous post.) Eastman Nature Center will hold an open house at 1:00 on Saturday, February 13, to introduce the public to the Whitney H. Eastman Archives. Whitney Eastman (1888-1979) was a local businessman, philanthropist, and conservationist. He was also an amateur

[mou-net] Whitney H. Eastman Archives open house - Feb. 13

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Schlick
Eastman Nature Center will hold an open house at 1:00 on Saturday, February 13, to introduce the public to the Whitney H. Eastman Archives. Whitney Eastman (1888-1979) was a local businessman, philanthropist, and conservationist. He was also an amateur ornithologist of some renown who served as