[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-05 Thread eckma001
Correction -- omit the "Broad-shouldered" hawk. Oops. On 5 Jan 2006, eckma001 wrote: > Dear Mark, > Thanks for your very helpful message. Here is information from my sighting > at MSP on December 27 from 2:00-3:30 pm. Conditions were heavily overcast > and very dreary, l

[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-05 Thread eckma001
Dear Mark, Thanks for your very helpful message. Here is information from my sighting at MSP on December 27 from 2:00-3:30 pm. Conditions were heavily overcast and very dreary, light wind, very slight mist. I spotted a large Snowy from the FedEx lot. It was perched atop a huge mound of dirt at

[mnbird] Re: [mou] Fwd: [wisb] IB Woodpecker - The Video

2005-04-28 Thread eckma001
What will be the impact on these few birds of hoards of eager birdwatchers invading its habitat?!?!? It's best hope may be for all of us to leave it alone and instead work to protect its remaining habitat from curious humans. Karlyn Eckman On 28 Apr 2005, Sharon Stiteler wrote: > This is one of t

[mou] Re: [mnbird] Great Grey- Aitkin & Pine Counties

2005-03-16 Thread eckma001
GGOs seem to be on the move in Pine County. The numbers of GGOs in the Cloverdale-Markville-Duxbury area has dropped significantly. We are now seeing only 3-4 a day, down from 30+ per day, and some days we now see none at all. We did have a sleeping owl at the entrance to our driveway (CR 137)

[mou] Pine County Owls Revisited

2005-02-09 Thread eckma001
Greetings all, Today we ran a similar route to Sunday (when we saw at least 33 GGOs). We traveled on Barns Spring Road --> CR 24 --> CR 137 --> Alma Razor Road --> Lake Lena Reservation --> Markville --> Duxbury. We saw 29 GGOs today. The concentration of owls was different today, with few at La

[mou] Lots of Pine County owls

2005-02-06 Thread eckma001
--1702892353-1184992951-1107735821=:17354 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Greetings all, Today we saw at least 33 roadside GGOs in approximately three hours of owl hunting near our cabin, from noon until about 3:00pm. We looked in Danforth, Ogema, Wilma and Arna townships. We actually

[mou] Minneapolis Nighthawk Migration

2004-08-23 Thread eckma001
There were large numbers of Nighthawks this weekend (August 13-15) on Lake Superior from Bayfield to Ashland (late afternoon and evening). They were feeding right on the water's edge, flying slowly in very tight short circles. They seemed compltely unafraid of people and were flying within a few

[mou] yellow rumps and the storm

2004-04-19 Thread eckma001
Greetings Tim, I saw a pair at our cabin in Pine County (Ogema Township) this weekend. This location is 100 miles north of St. Paul, and about 30 miles north of Crex Meadows. Not very near your part of Minnesota, but we\'re happy to see them anyways. Karlyn Eckman On 19 Apr 2004, Houghton, Timot

[mou] Amazing Pelicans

2004-04-13 Thread eckma001
On Sunday I saw a small flock of about thirty White Pelicans just to the south of Forest Lake. One had a fish cross-ways in its bill. They were flying low, right up and over I 35, toward the lake on the opposite side of the road. There is also an active Bald Eagle nest just east of I-35 a mile o