Winter = December, January, February
Spring = March, April, May
Summer = June, July
Fall = August, September, October, November
Janssen is good, but dated. MOU occurrence maps, Janssen's descendents, are
current and constantly being updated.
Steve Weston
On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
To clarify a bit. Yes, counting very large numbers of birds is sort of
difficult, but with practice it can be done. I slowly move my scope over the
rafts and count 10, 20, 30, etc. until I reach 100 and that is 1, and then 10,
20, 30 to 100 again and that is 2. If you say the numbers out loud
Fri. night, as light was dwindling I believe we spotted a Merlin, i think
possibly two. I believe I may have seen a pair flying, but then just a bit
later saw one land in the bigger tree just out to north side of the walking
bridge, near the parking lot end. There's a bigger tree in that area
Yeah. Jason. How do you count 8 thousand plus birds. Is it sort of like those
“I’m not a Robot” drills?Count the number of birds in each square and check the
box when you’ve counted over 100. Just teasing you a bit. Love your
enthusiasm!
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> On Dec 12, 2020, at 7:20 PM,
HI JASON - casual birder here. that's an amazing no. of birds - how the heck
do you go about the counting of them when there are so many??? are you
counting them off of a photo maybe??? I mean, couldn't there actually have
been 8081 common mergansers and 907 goldeneyes???
jim
> On
Hello All,
I don't think Lake Minnetonka gets all that much birding coverage because it is
hard to access but tonight the birding was even better than last week.
I had:
Common Merganser: 8,080
Common Goldeneye: 910
Herring Gull: 1,750
There are now a ton of gulls hanging out in the Browns Bay/
The 121st annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count starts on Monday (12/14) and
runs through January 5th, although there is only one count scheduled after
the 1st. Minnesota has 85 counts, of which 5 are cancelled due to Covid,
including 2 Wisconsin border counts. Two new counts in SW Minnesota are
I saw a Flicker in the front yard (St Paul) this morning and, consulting Bob
Janssen's Birds of Minnesota, confirmed that this was no big deal. It did
prompt me to wonder and ask how the seasons are broken down in the MOU's
occurrence maps. Are the seasons based on the meteorological seasons
(Posted by Frank Gosiak via moumn.org)
The CBC will be held on December 20th starting at 8:00 in the morning. If you
want to
participate contact me, Frank Gosiak, at 320-267-1667 or fgos...@gmail.com. We
will not be
meeting as usual at Perkins but I will send the information to you
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