[mou-net] E Screech Owl, not present, Minnetonka, MN

The owl is not in the box this morning. Crows and jays were making a big fuss in the back yard just a few minutes ago but I could not see anything. Yesterday the owl was at the hole only a short time during the day, then went back into the box. It came up to the hole again at 4:45 pm until 5:10

[mou-net] Pileated Woodpecker

We have a pileated woodpecker coming to our suet feeder every day throughout the day.  Why does it stay such a short time?  I designed a feeder which my husband built that does not sway and is stable like a tree.  But it still comes in and leaves quickly unlike the other woodpeckers that stay

[mou-net] Backyard thriving

After a summer bird desert of Cooper's Hawks nesting nearby and their young practicing on anything else that flies and then an elbow strain that prevented me from working my feeders, things are thriving in Maple Grove this morning. I finally cleaned and refilled my feeders and about a

[mou-net] Harlequin Duck

Nice ad male, on Mille Lacs L, at Liberty Beach Public access (SR 47 and Mille Lacs Cty 28). Feeding with large flock of goldeneyes. Seen 11:30 - Noon today. Jim Mattsson Jim Otto Paul Budde

[mou-net] Gull, Mille Lacs Lake

Keep an open mind here. Today, after finding a male Harlequin Duck at Liberty Beach, Lake Mille Lacs, Jim Otto, Paul Budde and I continued south to a scenic overlook at Twin Bays north of the airport. Almost immediately I spotted a distant bird (~ 500-600 m?) flying with a wing beat that

[mou-net] Black Scoters still present + late migrant

Hi everyone, John Hockema and I decided to try for the Freeborn County Black Scoters found by Ron Erpelding and Herb Dingmann yesterday (thanks guys!). We were successful in first finding one, looking east from just south of the office, at Myre-Big Island State Park. We found another two