Re: [mou-net] Be on the lookout

2024-02-24 Thread Jason Frank
In the past 2 days, in the areas around Big Stone NWR (near Odessa), the Minnesota River Headwaters, Lakeside Park, the southern tip of Big Stone Lake in Ortonville, and along Dike Road between Ortonville and Big Stone City SD, the following waterfowl are currently present: Several thousand Grea

[mou-net] Be on the lookout

2024-02-23 Thread Jim Williams
From a birder who lives in SE SD, sent today: "There is an open pond by my nieces in southern sanborn country. Last night and today I saw redhead, lesser scaup, green-winged teal, mallard, wigeon, ring necked, Goldeneye. Along with Canada, cackling, white-fronted goose. Jim Williams Birding colu

[mou-net] be on the lookout for liberated store finches

2015-07-06 Thread linda whyte
A well-intentioned but uninformed person told Carpenter Nature Center staff, late on Sunday, that he had bought some exotic store finches recently to secure their freedom. He did not say how many, or where they were released, and described them only as "white, with dark beaks." Since such birds may