[mou] Shrikes

2008-03-30 Thread Derek Bakken
Hello, I saw a shrike today on the east end of Black Dog Lake (east side of hwy 77). It flew shortly after I got my binoculars on it and I have the gut feeling that it was a Loggerhead Shrike and not a Northern Shrike based on the quick look I got at it's face and the body shape. I checked the

[mou] shrikes

2007-11-27 Thread linda whyte
Last week held a bonanza of shrike sightings for me--3 in 8 days. On the first Sunday, there was one hunting the hillside below Refuge Headquarters in Bloomington. The following Saturday there was one at Black Dog Park, about halfway along the trail toward the SNA at Cliff Fen Park. (Perhaps it was

[mou] shrikes in Carver County

2007-10-27 Thread Ben Parke
Ran across two shrikes this afternoon at the spring peeper meadow at Hwy 5 and 41. Based on range and time of year I have to say Northern Shrike (I don't have a scope and could not get close enough to see the extent of the eye patch.) Ironically, I located the shrikes in the same area that I s

[mou] Shrikes

2007-01-20 Thread Bill Bruins
While on my way to the work day at Weaver Dunes I observed a Shrike sitting on the power-line on County Road 27 in Wabasha County. Returning, I spotted two Shrikes, spaced about a tenth of a mile apart. One was in the same place I saw it in the morning. This is the road just north of Plainview

[mou] Shrikes, Hawks and my first No. Hawk Owl

2006-03-04 Thread Sandy Kuder
--0-1267300718-1141522305=:49978 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Seen today, Saturday, in Aitkin County: 2 Northern Shrikes on Cty Rd. 18 between 169 & Cty Rd 5 2 Rough-Legged Hawks on Cty Rd. 5 between Cty Rds.18 and 3 1 Northern Hawk Owl, just