[mou] Birding around the metro

Monday: I stopped by the airport and found the Snowy Owl on the fence by the Fed-Ex overflow parking on the east side of the road after the second tunnel on Cargo Road. Saturday: During the Hastings CBC I found a Tufted Titmouse in Nininger Township on Pine Bend Trail. From Hwy 55 take the ea

[mou] birding around the metro

the bird of day (Thursday) that propelled me to the keyboard was a grebe seen at 70mph from I-94 on one of the ponds north of the freeway just west of the Albertville exit. This was a large dark grebe with a long slender neck that was white on the front and dark on the sides. It appeared to be

[mou] Birding around the metro

This evening (Tuesday) about 7pm I had the opportunity to check out a couple of shorebird spots in Dakota County. The first was a large pond with exposed shore on 170th Street just east of Pilot Knob in the northeast corner of Lakeville. This is pretty good shorebird habitat. I found about 20

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--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_6009_1157748938_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Today I had a Nashville Warbler and a Swainson's Thrush in my yard. The strangest thing I saw was a N. Waterthrush in my yard--and we live a block away from one! Has anyone seen a Waterthrush

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I fairly regularly get Northern Waterthrushes in my yard during migration. Warblers are nocturnal migrants, and when they descend at first light are often tired and hungry. If a waterthrush doesn't see suitable water near, it still must come down. Imagine all the inappropriate habitat that birds

[mou] Birding around the metro

The sky over Owatonna was filled with nighthawks last night and the yard is a-twitter with warblers.  A front must be coming through! Matt Boisen     From: "Steve Weston" To: "mnbird" ,"Mou-net" Subject

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On Saturday I found the first flock of White-throated Sparrows of the fall. On Labor Day, I had a male Coopers Hawk pursuing a female as they flew into my yard. Interesting was the Leopard Frogs were calling in the back yard. While this spring we had great choruses of Copes Gray Treefrogs and A

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Swainson's Thrush at Quiggley Lake Caspian Terns in Hennepin County: 116 @ Purgatory Creek / Flagship Marsh (Prairie Ctr Dr & Technology Dr. Eden Prairie) 45 @ Arbor Lakes (Hemlock Dr. Maple Grove) Brewers Blackbird Maple Grove Spotted Sandpipers: watched two courting. I've never seen this b

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Yesterday the ice went out on Quiggley Lake. this morning there were two hen and one drake wood ducks by our shore. One of the hens spent a while in the same wood duck box that yesterday hosted a Hooded Merganser hen. Hopefully, tomorrow I will return home early enough to check out the box.